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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: Aug. 5, 2022

August 5, 2022

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. The Best of the Web This Week series is brought to you by Salford Group.

Annual Cover Crops, Forages Prove Beneficial in Challenging Planting Season

June 16, 2022 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

Source: South Dakota State Extension

Annual forages or early summer cover crops can be a helpful alternative in late planting situations and often work well within the crop insurance system. There is no ‘hard and fast’ blanketed mix or species that can be recommended to all producers, as each grower is in a unique circumstance with a different production environment and goals, soil types and management techniques.

Sunn Hemp Effective for Weed Control in Fall Crops

November 15, 2021 | Posted in Termination

Source: SARE

Farmers with a certified organic diversified vegetable farm in South Carolina are seeing some success with using sunn hemp as a crimped cover crop to suppress weeds in fall brassica crops. Wild Hope Farm, located in Chester, S.C., received a Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SSARE) Producer Grant to explore summer cover crop mixes for organic no-till broccoli. Read more in this article from SARE.

Managing Weeds with Cover Crops After Wheat

May 28, 2021 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: South Dakota State University Extension

Weed control has focused on resistance management, with a greater reliance on residual herbicide programs, use of multiple sites of action at full rates and over lapping residual programs. As use of cover crops have increased in recent years managing weeds through a longer residual herbicide program has become more complicated. Read more in this article from South Dakota State University Extension.

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.

Cover Crops Effective for Weed Control

March 15, 2021 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: Southern Minnesota

Planting cover crops can be an effective weapon in the battle against weeds. There is a learning curve, however. Read more in this article from Southern Minnesota magazine.

Hedging Your Long-Term Weed Control Bets to Reduce Herbicide Reliance

No-tiller and crop consultant Jon Spreng, Perrysville, Ohio, says the biggest challenge to combining no-till and cover crops is finding a permanent weed control solution.

By Sarah Hill posted on March 10, 2021 | Posted in Soil Health

Herbicides alone aren’t going to be enough to control weeds in the long run, says Jon Spreng, a no-tiller and crop consultant from Perrysville, Ohio. The current herbicide choices available on the market may last 10-30 years, but unless new active ingredients come along, the fourth-generation grower says he believes that weed resistance will only get worse.

Cover Crops as Alternative Weed Control

February 15, 2021 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: North Carolina State University

Cover crop use was steadily rising on farms in the early 2000s, with 60% of corn growers reporting their use. But in recent years consistency has wavered. Read more in this article from North Carolina State University.

[Video] Managing Weeds When Soil is Very Wet

December 4, 2020 | Posted in Soil Health

Hear from a group of South Dakota growers and how they manage the challenges with hitting a spraying window, timing of applying weed control chemicals when soils are saturated, if weeds should be considered as a cover crop in some situations, and more.

Cover Crops for Weed Control

September 30, 2020 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: SARE

High biomass cover crops are effective in controlling weeds in vegetable production, while contributing to higher produce yields, Auburn University researchers have found. In addition, pre-emergence herbicide applications can be eliminated from weed management programs in the presence of heavy residues from cover crop mixtures. Read more in this article from the Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE) program.