Cover Crop Strategies editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week:

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How to Apply Residual Herbicides when Planting Green into Living Cover Crops

Learn how best to apply residual herbicides when planting soybeans into green, living cover crops, from a new multi-state study in Delaware, Virginia and Pennsylvania, led by Penn State grad student Megan Czekaj.

Perennial or Annual Cover Crops — Which is Best for Organic Growers?

In this video, Tunsisa Hurisso, assistant professor of research and soil science at Lincoln University Missouri and Tim Reinbott, director of field operations and communications at University of Missouri, explain their joint cover crop research project taking place at the University's Busby Research Farm in Jefferson City, Mo.

A New Direction in Cover Crops: Developing Perennial Ground Cover for Corn Systems

Professor and Research and Extension specialist Dan Andersen of Iowa State University provides producers with information from the RegenPGC project on perennial ground cover in row crop systems. In this video, Andersen addresses the vital question, "Can we come up with a cover crop that we only have to plant once and then manage instead of reestablishing it every year to help with environmental services while we are producing our row crops?”

Bumper Crops: Early Season Weed & Cover Crop Considerations for No-Till Systems

Since it has been a mild winter and spring, and both weeds and cover crops are growing quickly, University of Wisconsin weed scientists Rodrigo Werle and Dan Smith are talking about burndown and termination, planting into cover crops and soybean herbicide best practices.

Cover Crop & No-Till Soil vs. Conventionally Tilled Soil

In this TikTok video from Manitou Creek, watch what happens when two different types of soil are exposed to water. Spoiler alert: one of the soils holds up a lot better while the other looks like an erosion nightmare waiting to happen.

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