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Cover Crop Tactics on Display at Soul of the Soil Conference

By Mackane Vogel posted on October 4, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices

This week we are in beautiful Galena, Ill., and we got a choice to check out the first ever Soul of the Soil Conference. This is put on by the Fields of Sinsinawa and we are actually going to toss it off to one of the presenters to talk a little bit about what’s going on in the world of cover crops at the first annual soul of the Soil Conference.

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Dialing Back Cover Crop Seeding Rate for Higher Efficiency

By Mackane Vogel posted on September 20, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Product Innovations & Introductions

Vincennes, Ind. No-Till Living Legend Ray McCormick has a unique and efficient way of seeding cover crops with his draper and air seeder. Here’s the Conservation Ag Operator Fellow discussing some of the specs that make his setup so effective.

Top 5 Conservation Ag Takeaways from Farm Progress Show 2024

By Mackane Vogel posted on September 3, 2024 | Posted in Product Innovations & Introductions

The 2024 Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa was filled with lots of new gadgets and innovations in the world of cover crops, no-till and all things conservation ag. Here are just a few of the most exciting things our editors saw while at the show.

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Agri-Spray Drones Can Seed Cover Crops

By Mackane Vogel posted on September 3, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Product Innovations & Introductions

One of the coolest parts of the 2024 Farm Progress Show is checking out the in-field demos. Earlier I had the chance to go to the Agri-Spray Drones tent where they were flying drones. Here’s how you can use drones to seed cover crops.

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Being Intentional with Cover Crops in Your Farm System

By Mackane Vogel posted on August 16, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices

At last week’s National Strip-Tillage Conference in Madison, Wis., I had a chance to catch up with Gary Zimmer, also known as the father of biological farming, who was attending the conference in hopes of learning more about how strip-till can fit into his biological farming practices.

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Waterhemp Management Research Plots

By Mackane Vogel posted on August 2, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices

At an upcoming waterhemp management plot tour on O’Brien Family Farm in Brooklyn, Wis., I’ll be hearing from Rodrigo Werle, weed scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as others as they walk us through their weed suppression research.

On The Road: A Tour of East Coast Agriculture's Rich History

By Mackane Vogel posted on July 19, 2024 | Posted in Soil Health

In early June I had the chance to visit some of my family and friends while also going on a few work-related visits throughout Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania. This gave me the unique opportunity to learn more about the rich agricultural history in and around the area where I grew up.

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An Accidental Cover Crop Experiment

By Mackane Vogel posted on July 19, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Georgetown, Del., no-tiller Jay Baxter was planning on conducting a cover crop experiment with oats, but when Mother Nature got in the way, he quickly pivoted to another idea for a different type of cover crop experiment.

How to Get the Most Bang for Your Buck with Cover Crops

Understanding cover crop trends can shed light on how to increase widespread cover crop adoption

By Mackane Vogel posted on July 13, 2024 | Posted in Grazing, Soil Health

Finding a way to make a solid ROI on cover crops (and no-till) is the key to making these practices more widespread.

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Does It Pay to Add Winter Peas to a Cover Crop Mix?

By Mackane Vogel posted on July 3, 2024

Winter peas can be a great addition to a cover crop mix for many growers, but the cost of these seeds can be high and the return on investment doesn’t always pay off. USDA plant research geneticist Lisa Kissing Kucek is in Madison, Wis., at the forage research center where she and other researchers have been breeding winter peas for 7 years in a nationwide cover crop breeding network to study spring vigor, winter vigor, biomass and other benefits of various cover crop species.

Articles by Mackane Vogel

Cover Crop Tactics on Display at Soul of the Soil Conference

Dialing Back Cover Crop Seeding Rate for Higher Efficiency

Top 5 Conservation Ag Takeaways from Farm Progress Show 2024

Agri-Spray Drones Can Seed Cover Crops

Being Intentional with Cover Crops in Your Farm System

Waterhemp Management Research Plots

On The Road: A Tour of East Coast Agriculture's Rich History

An Accidental Cover Crop Experiment

How to Get the Most Bang for Your Buck with Cover Crops

Does It Pay to Add Winter Peas to a Cover Crop Mix?

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