Chris Teachout of Shenandoah, Iowa, and Loran Steinlage of West Union talk about advanced cover crops, including diverse mixes, spring covers ahead of soybeans and interseeding cover crops into corn in June, at the 2017 Practical Farmers of Iowa Annual Conference.
Bringing Cattle Back to the Farm to Enhance the Value of Cover Crops
Seeking to combine the return of cattle with capturing the value of cover crops, Rock Creek, Minn., strip-tiller and no-tiller Jon Stevens is grazing cattle on a 30-acre paddock seeded with grasses and cereals with the intention of trying to rotate in corn within 3 years to capture in-field nitrogen.
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