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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: Aug. 22, 2025

This Week's Lineup:

  • Mycorrhizal Mix - 2025 Cover Crop Test Plot Tour
  • How Cover Crops Build Healthy Soil for Organic Millet Farming
  • Cover Crops to be a Big Focus at Farm Progress Show
  • SPX Strip-Till Cultivator in Cover Crops
  • “Our No-Till & Cover Crop Experiment Failed — Here’s Why I Think It Happened”


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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: Aug. 15, 2025

This Week's Lineup:

  • Farmers Adopting Cover Crops More Likely to Adopt Other Conservation Practices
  • Cover Crops Serve as Powerhouse for Sustainable Farming
  • Winter Warrior Hairy Vetch Cover Crop Can Withstand Even the Harshest Winters
  • Interseeding Cover Crops into Corn
  • Soybean Yield Response to 60 Years of No-Till in Ohio


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[Podcast] On the Road with Cover Crops — Jim Hershey Part 2

On this episode of the Cover Crop Strategies Podcast, come along on the road with Cover Crop Strategies Associate Editor, Mackane Vogel, as he travels across parts of Maryland and Pennsylvania to visit 3 different farmers who are working with cover crops in unique ways.
On this episode of the Cover Crop Strategies Podcast, come along on the road with Cover Crop Strategies Associate Editor, Mackane Vogel, as he travels to parts of Maryland and Pennsylvania to visit 3 different farmers who are working with cover crops in unique ways. 
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Cover Crop Connection

Using Cover Crops to Set the Table for Corn

I’m here at the Pennsylvania No-Till Alliance’s 20th Anniversary celebration on Jim Hershey’s farm, having a field day in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. As you can see we’ve had lots of equipment on display, lots of demos so far and lots of great speakers too. So, we’ve got a great Cover Crop Connection in store for you and we’re going to toss it off to that segment right now.
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This Week

Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: Aug. 8, 2025

This Week's Lineup:

  • One Farmer’s Take: Why Cover Crops Are Worth It
  • On-Farm Demonstration Research - Interseeding Cover Crops in Broccoli
  • Cutting Costs With Cover Crops and Manure Credits
  • Cover Crops and Fall Residual Herbicides
  • Seeding Cover Crops with Drones


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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: Aug. 1, 2025

This Week's Lineup:

  • How History Is Shaping the Future of No-Till Farming
  • Mixed Results from No Till with Nitro Seasonal Cover Crop Cocktail
  • How One Farmer Turned Cover Crops Into Profit
  • The Economic and Ecological Aspects of Soil Health
  • Field Crops Virtual Breakfast — Planting Cover Crops After Wheat


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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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