Cover Crop Planting & Termination Best Practices
In our latest edition of the No-Till Farmer Newsletter, you may have seen our No-Till Innovator Special Report which includes tips and advice from expert no-tillers, agronomists and researchers.
While one of the numerous benefits of seeding cover crops is helping solve drainage concerns, a few no-tillers say it has actually created more drainage worries. The concern is that cover crop roots were blocking tile lines.
With last year’s warm fall and winter, along with a very wet spring in the eastern Corn Belt, conditions in some areas were excellent for achieving extensive cover crop growth.
Last spring, cereal rye enjoyed greater root growth…