Articles Tagged with ''cover crops''

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Treating Your Cover Crop Like a Cash Crop

No-Till Innovator and Williamsport, Ind., no-tiller Rick Clark knows just how important it is to manage your cover crops as if they were your cash crops. Let’s take a listen to Cark’s advice about the nutrient sequestration powers of cereal rye, and the positive and negative impact it could have on weeds and corn.
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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: Oct. 3, 2025

This Week's Lineup:

  • Easily Grow Better Cover Crops in Drought with This Cover Crop Plan
  • Cover Crops Build Healthy Soil and Help Keep Nitrogen in Ground
  • Answering Cover Crop Questions with Case Studies and Field Experiments
  • Examining the Social Aspect of Sustainable Agriculture
  • Farmers Protecting Water with No-Till, Cover Crops & Manure Management


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Covering the Soil, Feeding the Livestock

While a minority of livestock owners feed their animals their cover crops, those that do see no ill effects & most see a financial value in grazing them
Roughly 34% of livestock owners grazed their cover crops, 30.6% harvested covers for livestock and 16.2% used covers for silage.
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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: Sept. 19, 2025

This Week's Lineup:

  • Using Drones to Plant Cover Crops Early
  • When Cover Crops Fail… What Next?
  • Compost Spreading & The Effect on Emerging Cover Crops
  • One Small Shift in Mindset Can Reshape an Entire Farm Operation
  • Policy and Markets Starting to Align for Cover Crops & No-Till


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International No-Till, Strip-Till and Cover Crops Research Journal - September 2025

Each month, the conservation ag group at Cornell University offers an analysis of the latest scientific papers dealing with conservation agriculture research from around the world. For this on-going web series, our editors will be selecting several research papers from the Cornell list that will be of special interest to North American no-tillers, strip-tillers and cover croppers.

In this edition:

  • Integrated soil health management influences soil properties: Insights from a U.S. Midwest study.
  • Furrow Irrigated Long-Term No-Till and Conventional-Till Soil Evaluation in the Mid-South USA.
  • Cross-Effect Between Cover Crops and Glyphosate-Based Herbicide Application on Microbiote Communities in Field Crops Soils.
  • Responses of soil reactive nitrogen losses and nitrogen pools to straw mulching.

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The National No-Tillage Conference returns January 12-15, 2027! Build and refine your no-till system with dozens of new ideas and connections at the 35th Annual National No-Tillage Conference in Indianapolis, Jan. 12-15, 2027. Experience an energizing 4-day agenda featuring inspiring general session speakers, expert-led No-Till Classrooms and collaborative No-Till Roundtables. Plus, Certified Crop Adviser credits will be offered.

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