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:
- Cover Crops and Diversity: A Conversation with Keith Burns
- Nematodes in Cover Crop Fields
- Harvesting Soybeans that were Planted… Brown?
- Biologicals & Cover Crops
- No-Till Soybean Planting into Cover Crops with John Deere ExactEmerge
Cover Crops and Diversity: A Conversation with Keith Berns
Join host Taylor Henry on this episode of The Acres U.S.A. Podcast, as he engages in a deep dive into cover cropping and ecological agriculture with Keith Berns, the owner and founder of Green Cover Seed. Hear about Keith's journey from conventional farming to a focus on multi-species cover crop mixes, the benefits of diverse plantings, and how innovative practices can help improve soil health and resilience.
Nematodes in Cover Crop Fields
Soybean cyst nematodes may be interfering with your soybean profitability by reducing your yield. So why can’t farmers find a way to just kill them? One researcher at Univ. of Illinois is working to answer that question. Nematologist Nate Schroeder, who has several research projects in his lab that are designed to make life easier for soybean farmers, is focusing on nematodes in soybeans, corn and cover crop fields.
Harvesting Soybeans that were Planted… Brown?
In this video, the growers at Giffin Farms are evaluating the results of planting soybeans into mature, rank, DEAD cover crops and whether or not their efforts to improve the soil and prevent erosion were successful through what they say is the most difficult growing season they've ever had.
Biologicals & Cover Crops
In the latest installment of the Green Cover Seed Cover Crop Basics Webinar Series, watch as sales rep Dylan Kuhn discusses techniques for applying biological inoculants to cover crops.
No-Till Soybean Planting into Cover Crops with John Deere ExactEmerge
Check out this video from Wagner Family Farms, located in Northwest Iowa, as they showcase soybean planting into no-till ground and into cover crops using John Deere ExactEmerge.
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