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:
- Advancing Climate-Smart Crops — R&D Driving On-Farm Change
- What If We Engineered Timing into Cover Crops Instead of Managing Around It?
- Livestock & Cover Crops — Farmers Leading Our United Revolution In Soil Health
- Seeding Cover Crops with Drones: Faster Timing, Healthier Soil — ABZ Innovation Webinar
- Choose Your Seats Wisely Next to One of These No-Till Legends
Advancing Climate-Smart Crops — R&D Driving On-Farm Change
As the agriculture sector accelerates toward more resilient systems, the search for climate-smart crops continues to gather pace. This webinar explores the potential of winter camelina, an oilseed crop advancing through research, innovation, and on-farm trial, as part of a broader push for crop diversification and low-carbon fuel feedstocks. Planted in the fall and harvested in early summer, camelina provides living cover through the off-season while also being harvested and sold as a cash crop — an uncommon combination that creates a new incentive for farmers to keep soil covered longer.
What If We Engineered Timing into Cover Crops Instead of Managing Around It?
What if a cover crop seed could be planted at the same time as the cash crop… but engineered to germinate 60–120 days later? A biodegradable coating that delays water uptake. Mid-season emergence. Roots active when nutrient flows shift. Fewer late-season logistics. Potentially better nitrogen capture. Maybe even reduced N₂O loss. It sounds simple, but it isn’t. Read more here.
Livestock & Cover Crops — Farmers Leading Our United Revolution In Soil Health
In this video, discover how farmers across the Inland Northwest are transforming their soil — and their operations — from the ground up. Clint Zenner (Zenner Family Farms), David Dobbins (Hill View Farm JV), Erin Ruehl (Westfield Properties, Inc.), and Palouse Conservation District staff share insights into the livestock and cover crop integration component of the FLOURISH (Farmers Leading Our United Revolution In Soil Health) project. Learn how integrating livestock can effectively terminate cover crops, enhance soil biology, and bring new life back to the soil.
Seeding Cover Crops with Drones: Faster Timing, Healthier Soil — ABZ Innovation Webinar
In this webinar, Dr. Dalma Gila-Rácz explains how drone seeding can make cover cropping more timely, precise and cost-effective — while protecting soil as a living ecosystem. Learn how cover crops reduce erosion, retain nutrients, improve soil structure, support biodiversity and boost long-term productivity.
Choose Your Seats Wisely Next to One of These No-Till Legends
You are boarding an open, 8-hour flight and can pick any of these deceased no-till legends to sit next to — and have a deep conversation with. Who do you choose to sit with — and why?
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