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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: May 8, 2026

This Week's Lineup:

  • No-Tiller Sees Big Difference Just 6 Years After Ditching the Plow
  • How to Save a Farm
  • 7 Reasons Why This Farmer Doesn't Grow This Popular Clover Cover Crop
  • Understanding the Purpose of Cover Crops
  • First Generation Farmers Are Doing Things Differently

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Forage Matters: Cover Crops, Grazing & Nitrogen Fixation

Legumes do have the ability, when conditions are right, to fix large amounts of nitrogen, no doubt about that. To capture the most of that fixed nitrogen, the legume should be cycled back into the soil through plant decay or by grazing and cycling through the animal and back to the soil.
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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: May 1, 2026

This Week's Lineup:

  • Growing Cover Crops to Build Healthier, More Resilient Soils
  • Stop Buying Fertilizer! This Cover Crop Secret Changes Everything
  • Knowledge Gap Slows Cover Crop Adoption in Brazil
  • No-Till Soybeans & Cover Crops
  • Keep an Eye on your Drones — 15 Ag Drones were Stolen and Recovered

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I Am Coming to Visit YOUR Farm this Summer

I am coming to visit your farm this summer. Well, okay not ALL of your farms. But, once again I will be heading east in June to visit some family in Baltimore and Virginia and while I am there, I plan to make a handful of farmer visits across Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Virginia.
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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: April 24, 2026

This Week's Lineup:

  • Cover Crops & Double Cropping Play Expanded Role in Commodity Crop Rotations
  • An Entirely New Type of Cover Crop Roller…
  • Lessons Learned: Maximizing Crop Rotations With Cover Crops
  • Regenerative Agriculture from Start to Finish
  • Researchers Develop Dynamic Framework to Monitor Tillage Practices from Space



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Researchers Breeding Covers for Targeted Benefits, Specific Environments

From cereal rye with higher levels of weed-controlling allelochemicals to hairy vetch that germinates in the first year, scientists are working to breed better cover crops

From cereal rye with higher levels of weed-controlling allelochemicals to hairy vetch that germinates in the first year, scientists are working to breed better cover crops


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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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