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:

Growing Cover Crops to Build Healthier, More Resilient Soils

Growing Fall sown cover crops is one of the best ways to nurture your soil and improve organic matter content which feeds the microbes which lead to soil fertility. In this video assess the growth that has happened this spring right before these growers mow and incorporate this "green manure" into the soil in preparation for planting summer crops.

Stop Buying Fertilizer! This Cover Crop Secret Changes Everything

If your soil is hard, lifeless, dry or struggling to grow healthy crops, this could be the game-changing solution you’ve been missing. Learn how farmers for centuries kept their land fertile using simple plants that work underground to restore soil life for free.

Knowledge Gap Slows Cover Crop Adoption in Brazil

Most Brazilian farmers already adopt at least one regenerative practice, but a lack of knowledge continues to limit the expansion and refinement of this type of management, according to a new survey by ag-tech company Agrosmart. Read more here. 

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No-Till Soybeans & Cover Crops

In this video, watch as one farmer shows why he plants his soybeans at a lower seeding population with fewer seeds per acre while still aiming to maintain strong yields. With moisture limited, each plant has more room to thrive, while the cover crop helps hold onto the small amount of water they do have.

Keep an Eye on your Drones — 15 Ag Drones were Stolen and Recovered

Fifteen agricultural drones that were stolen last month in New Jersey were recovered on Monday, the New Jersey State Police said. The March 24 theft at CAC International, a logistics and shipping company located in Harrison, N.J., spooked authorities because the drones are built for precision spraying of crops and, in the wrong hands, could be programmed to disperse dangerous chemicals over a route controlled by GPS. The drones were recovered at Prudent Corporation, located in Dover, N.J.

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