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Enrollment Now Open: Farmers for Soil Health Cover Crop Initiative

October 26, 2024 | Posted in Soil Health

Farmers for Soil Health, a collaboration between the National Corn Growers Association, National Pork Board and United Soybean Board to create a farmer-led cover crop program, has announced enrollment is now open for the second year of the initiative.

A Discussion with 2024 National Cover Crop Summit Presenter Matt Burkholder

February 28, 2024 | Posted in Soil Health

Associate Editor Mackane Vogel chats with 2024 National Cover Crop Summit presenter Matt Burkholder, a grower from Lima, Ohio. They’ll discuss Burkholder’s presentation, “My Soil Health Journey: Learning from Past Mistakes, Turning Dirt Into Healthy Soil.”

A Discussion with 2024 National Cover Crop Summit Presenter Jim Hoorman

February 28, 2024 | Posted in Soil Health

Associate Editor Mackane Vogel chats with 2024 National Cover Crop Summit presenter Jim Hoorman, a soil health specialist with Hoorman Soil Health Services. They’ll discuss Hoorman’s presentation, “Nutrient and Fertilizer Content of Cover Crops.”

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[Video] Precision Specialist Uses Sabanto Autonomy Kit to Plant Cover Crops

February 23, 2024 | Posted in Product Innovations & Introductions

Jake Warford, precision ag specialist with Linco-Precision, shares his experience working with the Sabanto autonomy kit. Although the kit is mainly being used for tillage and mowing tasks at the moment, Warford explains how he used it to plant cover crops and wheat in 2023. “Crawl, walk, run is Sabanto’s philosophy, and right now we’re walking,” Warford says.

This Week

Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: Dec. 1, 2023

December 1, 2023

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.

Seed Companies Encourage Cover Crop Use

October 16, 2023 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Some companies, such as Bayer, are paying Midwestern farmers $10 per acre to seed cover crops in fields going to seed corn production next spring.

Drilling Cover Crops Shows Benefits According to U of I Study

By John O'Connell posted on September 26, 2023 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: Post Register - Intermountain Farm & Ranch

University of Idaho Extension Educator Steven Hines believes he’s found an effective way for farmers who interplant cover crops between corn rows to significantly boost forage production.

Planting Green: Do Higher Cover Crop Seeding Rates Improve Weed Suppression?

By Teala Ficks posted on April 14, 2023 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: Grow

The idea that increasing cover crop seeding rates will increase the cover crop’s biomass and weed suppressive benefits is a popular assumption.

Indigo Ag Issues 110,000 Credits in Second Carbon Crop

February 23, 2023 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag, Soil Health

Source: Indigo

Indigo Ag today announced the completion of its second carbon crop

OGRAIN Discussion: Should You be Using Row Cleaners on Your Planter?

February 6, 2023 | Posted in Seeding Practices

A conversation in the Organic Grain Resource and Information Network (OGRAIN) email group began with a question about using row cleaners on a planter for cereal rye and soybean planting.