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:

Planting Garlic into an Oat Cover Crop

Anne and Eric Nordell have been planting garlic directly into a cover crop of oats for over 25 years. Their no-till system provides consistent yields of large bulbs without irrigation. The video covers their low-tech approach to planting green, cut-and-carry cover crop mulching, rapid bulb curing, and fallow year weed management.

Planting a Summer Annual Cover Crop Requires Attention to Detail

What was once a degraded row-cropped field is now well on its way to becoming a thriving perennial pasture. This spring, cows grazed the cool-season cover crop on the field shown in this video. That crop has now run its course — but it's still doing important work by acting as a protective mulch layer, or “armor,” helping to shield and feed the soil as the next round of growth begins.

Growers Need to Work WITH Mother Nature not Against Her

A 70-year-old farmer from South Dakota says long-term success comes down to one thing: Working with nature, not against her. “You can fight Mother Nature and you can win a few battles, but she’s going to win the war.”

Jim Hershey’s Cover Crop Garden Experiment for Weed Suppression

Earlier this month our very own editor Mackane Vogel visited Jim Hershey’s farm in Elizabethtown, Pa. In this video, check out one of Jim’s latest experiments with cover crops in a vegetable garden.

Farmers Mimic Mother Nature To Build Soils and Yield Success

The Seilers, no-tillers from northwest Ohio, use cover crops and no-till to improve soil health, reduce input costs and improve profitability. Read more about their farm operation in this article from AgWeb.

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