Seeding Practices

[Podcast] Apply Manure to Covers in the Fall or Spring

This week’s podcast, sponsored by GS3 Quality Seed, features Brian Dougherty, Iowa State University Extension Field Agricultural Engineer. Dougherty will discuss ideal timing for applying manure to cover crops, how cash crop and cover crop yields are affected by manure application, how manure application affects water quality, and more.
This week’s podcast, sponsored by GS3 Quality Seed, features Brian Dougherty, Iowa State University Extension Field Agricultural Engineer. Dougherty will discuss ideal timing for applying manure to cover crops, how cash crop and cover crop yields are affected by manure application, how manure application affects water quality, and more.
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[Podcast] Soil Life Needs Food — Like Cover Crops

This week’s podcast, sponsored by GS3 Quality Seed, features Richard Purdin, Ag & Natural Resource Educator with The Ohio State University. Purdin will discuss factors to consider when starting out with cover crops, the economic benefits of cover crops, the soil health benefits of covers, and more.
This week’s podcast, sponsored by GS3 Quality Seed, features Richard Purdin, Ag & Natural Resource Educator with The Ohio State University. Purdin will discuss factors to consider when starting out with cover crops, the economic benefits of cover crops, the soil health benefits of covers, and more.
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[Podcast] Interseeding Covers Into Corn

This week’s podcast, sponsored by GS3 Quality Seed, features Axel Garcia y Garcia, Associate Professor of Agronomy & Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota. Garcia y Garcia will discuss how interseeding helps cover crops fit into a cropping system, different methods for interseeding cover crops, timing of interseeding covers into corn, and more.
This week’s podcast, sponsored by GS3 Quality Seed, features Axel Garcia y Garcia, Associate Professor of Agronomy & Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota. Garcia y Garcia will discuss how interseeding helps cover crops fit into a cropping system, different methods for interseeding cover crops, timing of interseeding covers into corn, and more.
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Interseeding Cover Crops into Corn and Soybean

With the short-season available for growing cover crops after corn harvest, interest in interseeding cover crops into corn and soybean crops has increased in recent years. Interseeding is primarily done with a drill early in the season prior to crop canopy closure or via broadcast seeding late in the season, prior to harvest when the crop canopy begins to re-open. Read more in this article from University of Nebraska Extension.
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