Understanding the nutrient content of cover crops can be challenging because it depends on many different factors.

For this episode, we are going to Nelson, Missouri to visit with Alan Weber as he discusses his use of cereal rye and other cover crops on his farm. Weber runs a diversified crop and livestock operation and he’s found cereal rye especially useful in reducing pigweed and waterhemp pressure.

This Week's Lineup:

• Planting Garlic into an Oat Cover Crop
• Planting a Summer Annual Cover Crop Requires Attention to Detail
• Growers Need to Work WITH Mother Nature not Against Her
• Jim Hershey’s Cover Crop Garden Experiment for Weed Suppression
• Farmers Mimic Mother Nature To Build Soils and Yield Success

Earlier this month I visited Jim Hershey’s farm in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. And while last episode you had a chance to see what his plans are for the upcoming Pennsylvania No-Till alliance Field Day, this week I thought I’d showcase one of Jim’s latest experiments.

This Week's Lineup:

• Making Cover Crops & No-Till Work on Heavy, Poorly Drained Ground
• 12 Major Benefits of Cover Crops
• Comparing Benefits of Different Spring Grain Cover Crop Species
• Cover Crop Identification & Using the Field Guide
• Exploring the Nutrient Benefits of Cover Crops

Get ready to come on the road with me as I visit 3 farms in Maryland & Pennsylvania and explore similarities and differences between small and large farm operations in the Mid-Atlantic United States.

This Week's Lineup:

• Green Chopping Cover Crops for On-Farm Forage
• Cover Crops & No-Till at a Record Pace!
• Planting Cover Crops on a Potato Farm
• Cover Crops, No-Till & Direct Beef Marketing Transformed this Farm’s Future
• Annual Forages and Cover Crops During a Drought

Mackane Vogel here with this week’s cover crop connection and as i said before we are in Elizabethtown Pennsylvania at Jim Hershey’s farm and why don’t we see what Jim Hershey has been working on this year with cover crops.

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.

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.