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Carbon Credits by 2020 for No-Till, Cover Crops? It Could Happen This Time

By John Dobberstein posted on May 17, 2019

A coalition of environmental organizations and food companies announced efforts to build a market that would pay farmers for carbon sequestration and cleaner water. What will it mean for you?

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D.C. Compromises Not Helping the Soil Health Movement

By John Dobberstein posted on May 9, 2019 | Posted in Soil Health

While some important progress was made in the recent Farm Bill regarding soil health and cover crop management, a recent article detailed an important omission that will still impact many farmers’ wallets.

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How These Magical ‘Weeds’ — Cover Crops — Turned Around a Struggling Orchard

May 3, 2019 | Posted in Soil Health

With soils drying up and yields declining, Jose Robles of Modesto, Calif., turned to cover crops, compost and hedgerows to stem the losses, and it’s paying dividends so far.

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Covers Keep Weeds in Check

By Frank Lessiter posted on April 25, 2019

When growers talk about the benefits of cover crops, the talk normally centers around erosion control, keeping nutrients in the field, improving soil quality and trimming fertilizer purchases. But effective weed control is another benefit.

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Cover Crops Numbers Look Good — But More Work to Do

Momentum for the cover crop movement is certainly growing, but it will take additional support and fine-tuning of the message at the regional and local level to get more farmers hooked.

April 19, 2019

Momentum for the cover crop movement is certainly growing, but it will take additional support and fine-tuning of the message at the regional and local level to get farmers hooked.

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Our Focus: Tools You Can Use to Manage Cover Crops

April 3, 2019

Today we’re launching the Cover Crop Strategies Weekly Update, an e-newsletter that will share the most comprehensive information in the industry on making cover crops work in your farm system. This email — which will distribute every Friday — is an extension of the Cover Crop Strategies website we launched in February and will help you keep up with the latest information that’s been posted there.

Get to the Root of Cover Crop ROI by Asking Questions

By Jack Zemlicka posted on November 8, 2018

It’s no secret that cover crops have become a popular pairing with strip-till systems, and we’ve seen that reflected in our annual benchmark study analysis. On average, more than 54% of strip-tillers say they utilize cover crops from 2014-18.

Mandatory Cover Cropping? — Maybe

By Jack Zemlicka posted on September 12, 2018

Recent years have seen growing interest among strip-tillers in experimenting with and incorporating different mixes and seeding methods of cover crops to achieve desired results.

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Carbon Credits by 2020 for No-Till, Cover Crops? It Could Happen This Time

D.C. Compromises Not Helping the Soil Health Movement

How These Magical ‘Weeds’ — Cover Crops — Turned Around a Struggling Orchard

Covers Keep Weeds in Check

Cover Crops Numbers Look Good — But More Work to Do

Our Focus: Tools You Can Use to Manage Cover Crops

Get to the Root of Cover Crop ROI by Asking Questions

Mandatory Cover Cropping? — Maybe

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