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Are You Feeding Your ‘Livestock’?

By Sarah Hill posted on August 12, 2019
Earthworms — they are the unsung heroes and unpaid employees on your farm. According to Frank Gibbs, one of the featured speakers at the National Strip-Tillage Conference held earlier this month in Peoria, Ill., worms are always working to enrich your soil.
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Calculating the Value of Cover Crops

By Julia Gerlach posted on August 5, 2019 | Posted in Soil Health
Cover crops and other regenerative agriculture practices have been getting a massive amount of attention lately. There have been stories about them in major news outlets like Forbes and the New York Times and politicians have been working these concepts into their speeches and climate platforms, spreading the word about the benefits of keeping the soil covered with diverse living plants.
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When it Comes to Planting Covers, Your Opinion is the Only One That Matters

By Sarah Hill posted on July 24, 2019
Last week, I attended the Southern Cover Crops Conference in Alabama. Besides being my first trip to the Heart of Dixie, it was a truly enjoyable opportunity to learn about growing cotton and peanuts, how Southern farmers utilize cover crops to protect their soil and retain moisture, and the challenges that the agriculture industry faces in the region.
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Cover Crops Are a Good Fit for Seed Corn

By Sarah Hill posted on July 16, 2019 | Posted in Soil Health
No one does anything in a vacuum. No matter what type of project you undertake, someone has to create the raw materials you have to work with — whether it’s loggers harvesting trees for lumber made into woodworking projects, cotton farmers harvesting bolls made into cloth, or a goldsmith melting down gold to make jewelry.
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A Win-Win for Cover Crops in the Chesapeake Bay

By John Dobberstein posted on May 24, 2019 | Posted in Soil Health
Cover crops have been a key tool for protecting water quality in the Chesapeake Bay region and helping farmers improve soil tilth and health, but regulating nitrogen (N) with covers has proven difficult. Read what Penn State University researchers discovered about the ability of different species to sequester and fix N.
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