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Impact of Cover Crops on Yield

December 9, 2020 | Posted in Seeding Practices
Source: Southern Minnesota
The benefits of planting cover crop mixtures include the potential for additional nutrients to the subsequent cash crop, improved livestock feed and improved soil health, among other benefits. But farmers adopting multispecies cover crops are also interested in learning about the yield response of the crop planted following a cover crop. Read more in this article from Southern Minnesota.
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29th Annual National No-Tillage Conference To Be Held Virtually January 12-15, 2021

To meet the unique educational needs and interests of farmers during the COVID era, the National No-Tillage Conference has been reimagined as a VIRTUAL event for 2021.
December 8, 2020

The Virtual National No-Tillage Conference will deliver practical, ongoing education to accommodate your busy schedule through an online learning experience assembling the best no-tillers, agronomists and researchers together to share cutting-edge ideas and strategies to improve the profitability and efficiency of your no-till system.


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Protecting Soils & Fall Cover Crop Grazing Concerns

December 4, 2020 | Posted in Soil Health
Source: Brookings Register
I’ve heard many farmers express frustration with late-summer or fall planted cover crops that didn’t take off as expected. Of course, the main reason we witnessed slow fall growth in much of the state was lack of moisture, a stark comparison from many areas last year! Read more in this article from the Brookings Register (Brookings, SD).
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Extending the Grazing Season with Cover Crops

December 2, 2020 | Posted in Grazing
Source: Hoard's Dairyman
Feed, especially during the wintertime, is the biggest cost of production for cow-calf operations. As cows are brought in from summer pastures and we enter the peak of the culling period, there’s still a window of time for southern and more mild regions to extend their grazing season to avoid the sale barn glut. Read more in this article from Hoard's Dairyman.
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Cover Crop Cocktail Research

December 2, 2020 | Posted in Seeding Practices
Source: The Stettler Independent
A trend with beef cattle producers in northwestern Alberta is growing annual cocktail blends for forage production, with those blends including cereals, grasses, legumes and brassicas. ‘There’s a lot of interest in the Peace Country about cocktails, and there are a lot of questions,’ explains Buthaina Al-Maqtari, research technician with Peace Country Beef and Forage Association (PCBFA). Read more in this article from The Stettler Independent (Stettler, Alberta).
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Too Late to Plant Cover Crops?

November 30, 2020 | Posted in Seeding Practices
Source: Lancaster Farming
There is no decisive answer about when it's too late to plant cover crops in the fall. But if you could tell me what the weather will be for the next six weeks, I would be confident in recommending the last date that would be worth the risk of establishing a cover crop. Read more in this article from Lancaster Farming.
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Corn Growers Can Adjust Nitrogen Applications Using Measurements of Cover Crops, Soil Organic Matter

November 30, 2020 | Posted in Soil Health
Source: Penn State University
Researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences have developed an important component of a new system that corn growers can use to adjust nitrogen fertilizer applications based on site-specific measurements of cover crops and soil organic matter. The development is notable because while the wide use of cover crops in rotations with corn in the last decade has resulted in reductions in nutrient pollution and sedimentation, the introduction of cover crops has muddled growers' decision-making regarding how much nitrogen fertilizer to apply to meet their cash crop demands. Read more in this press release from Penn State University.
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