Planting green

Planting Green Could Be Tricky This Year

June 18, 2021 | Posted in Seeding Practices

It is crucial to consider current soil moisture conditions and expected rainfall if you are planning to plant green. Our research shows that planting green significantly dries the top 3 inches in the soil profile, compared to planting into cover crops that are killed a week or more prior. Read more in this article from Lancaster Farming.

Tips for Planting Corn After Cereal Rye

June 14, 2021 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: Farm Forum

Cereal rye ahead of soybean is not nearly as problematic. While planting green may not be advised for beginning cover crop users, more experienced cover crop users have planted soybean into green cereal rye. Read more in this article from Farm Forum.

Rethinking Cropland Management with Planting Green

June 2, 2021 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: South Dakota Soil Health Coalition

Peter Sexton, associate professor and South Dakota State University Extension sustainable cropping systems specialist at the SDSU Southeast Research Farm, has found that planting green has water quality benefits. Read more in this article from the South Dakota Soil Health Coalition.

Planting Corn After Cereal Rye

May 26, 2021 | Posted in Termination

Source: Iowa State University Extension

With cool weather conditions potentially causing delays in cover crop termination, what options are available? Cereal rye ahead of soybean is not nearly as problematic. Read more in this article from Iowa State University Extension.

[Podcast] Remember Your Goals When Planting Green

This week’s podcast, sponsored by Bio Till Cover Crops, features Liz Stahl, University of Minnesota Extension Educator--Crops. Stahl will discuss the terminating cover crops before planting cash crops, growing biomass before planting green, additional cover crop benefits from planting green, and more.

May 19, 2021 | Posted in Soil Health

This week’s podcast, sponsored by Bio Till Cover Crops, features Liz Stahl, University of Minnesota Extension Educator--Crops. Stahl will discuss the terminating cover crops before planting cash crops, growing biomass before planting green, additional cover crop benefits from planting green, and more.

Planting Green Influences Weed Control & Yields

April 16, 2021 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: Ohio's Country Journal

Weed control is one of the major challenges that soybean farmers face every year. Crop yields can be reduced by as much as 80% when weeds are left uncontrolled. Read more in this article from Ohio's Country Journal.

University of Nebraska Survey Finds More Than Half of Growers Plant Green

February 26, 2021 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: University of Nebraska Extension

Of those farmers who used cover crops and answered this question, 53% (83 respondents) indicated they had planted corn into a green cover crop —in most cases, a grassy cover crop. The cover crop was less than 10 inches tall in 63% of green planting situations. Read more in this article from the University of Nebraska.

Are Your Covers Ready for Winter?

By Sarah Hill posted on December 8, 2020

At the 2020 Farm Science Review earlier this August, a team of Extension educators planted multiple cover crop species, including forage turnips, clover, ryegrass, hairy vetch, radish, canola, regular turnips, balansa clover, sorghum, and oats. The team will be monitoring the cover crops over the winter to see how each species, except for the clovers, breaks down.

Farming Ugly

August 21, 2020 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: Lancaster Farming

Some of our fields looked really scruffy, like stands of forgotten, overgrown brush that had given up the ghost and turned that pale, beige color of dead foliage we become so familiar with, and bored of, through the long months of winter. Only the early signs of small, emerging spikes of greenery in rows suggested that the fields had not been forgotten. Read more in this article from Lancaster Farming.

[Podcast] Tips for Planting into Heavy Cover Crops

If wet spring weather has kept you from being able to plant, you may end up planting green into heavy cover crops, according to Pennsylvania cover crop expert Steve Groff. (Courtesy of Cover Crop Innovators)

June 17, 2020 | Posted in Seeding Practices

If wet spring weather has kept you from being able to plant, you may end up planting green into heavy cover crops, according to Pennsylvania cover crop expert Steve Groff. (Courtesy of Cover Crop Innovators)