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:

Breaking Down Cover Crop Options Based on Planting Dates

How do you determine which cover crop species will give you the most bang for your buck? It depends on when you’re planting them, says Rue Genger with the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Extension. Genger breaks down several different species and identifies which ones are best suited for the fall, spring and summer.

Cover Crop Interseeding with a Drone Pays off for Iowa Farmer

An Iowa farmer is using precision technology to take his cover crop program to a new level. He’s using a drone to seed oats. Check out how he gets the job done in this feature from NBC News and Sand County Foundation.

Why Do Some Farmers Abandon Cover Crops?

Iowa State researcher Chris Morris was part of a team that interviewed more than 3,000 farmers between 2015 and 2019 about their conservation practices. One of the big takeaways? Nearly 20% of the farmers who reported planting cover crops the first year had stopped using them the following year. This Wisconsin Watch article dives into the latest cover crop adoption trends and the challenges that act as barriers to permanent adoption.

‘Crazy Difference’ Between Cover Cropped & Conventional Fields

Here’s a side-by-side comparison of a field with no-till and cover crops and a field under conventional tillage shared by a farmer on YouTube. Can you spot the “crazy” differences?

An Amazing Look at Roots Growing as Crops Spring to Life

This is one of the coolest videos you’ll see all week! @CorbinSchuster shared this time lapse of roots expanding in the soil during emergence.

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