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Cover Crop Seeding & Termination Trends

More growers waited to seed cover crops after harvest, those seeding with a drone doubled, & a record number planted green

By Laura Barrera posted on September 29, 2025 | Posted in Seeding Practices

In studying the seeding and termination trends of the sixth annual Cover Crops Operational Benchmark Study, it appears that practices remained consistent, and largely, continued to grow in numbers.

Crop Progress Update: Corn Conditions Improve, Acreage Report Largely as Expected

July 1, 2025 | Posted in Soil Health

Crop Progress shows corn condition good/excellent +3% vs. last week, and the acreage report was largely as expected with corn acreage confirmed +5% year-over-year.

Researchers Seek to Reduce Emissions from Growing Soybeans

December 2, 2024 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: WORLD-GRAIN.com

Researchers from Iowa State University have shared modeling that could reduce emissions from growing soybeans by one-third while reducing yields.

No-Tilling Soybeans at Thanksgiving - 25 Years Ahead of Its Time?

November 27, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices

While “pushing the limits” of early planting dates, Iowa crop consultant and farmer David Savage proved 25 years ago that no-tilling soybeans extremely early might just be crazy enough to work. Like maybe the day before Thanksgiving or Christmas?

International No-Till, Strip-Till and Cover Crops Research Journal – November 2024

Each month, the conservation ag group at Cornell University offers an analysis of the latest scientific papers dealing with conservation agriculture research from around the world. For this on-going web series, our editors will be selecting several research papers from the Cornell list that will be of special interest to North American no-tillers, strip-tillers and cover croppers.

By Frank Lessiter posted on November 13, 2024 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag, Seeding Practices, Soil Health

In this edition:

Further Adoption of Conservation Tillage Can Increase Maize Yields in the Western U.S. Corn Belt
A New Theory for Soil Health
Weed Communities after Decades of Mineral Fertilization and Tillage Treatments in a Corn–Soybean Rotation
Changes in Soil Microbial Parameters after Herbicide Application in Soils under Conventional Tillage and Non-Tillage

Benchmark Survey

Cereal Rye, Post-Harvest Planting & Air Seeding Grow in Popularity

5th Annual Cover Crops Operational Practices Survey Asks Farmers About Cover Crop Management

By Mackane Vogel posted on April 24, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health, Termination

A total of 355 growers from across the U.S. participated in the 5th annual Cover Crops Operational Practices Survey, which featured questions on species selection, seeding methods, termination timing in 2023 and cover-cropping plans for 2024.

This Week

Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: July 28, 2023

July 28, 2023

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. The Best of the Web This Week series is brought to you by Saddle Butte Ag.

Finding Your ‘ROI’ With Cover Crops In No-Till Systems

Cover-crop expert Dave Robison is working to generate some hard numbers to quantify the much-touted benefits of individual covers and cover-crop mixes on no-till operations.

By Martha Mintz posted on April 7, 2020 | Posted in Economics

Rattling off the list of cover crop benefits may require stopping for a breath of air or two to get it all out.

Covering Your Assets During Drought

September 6, 2019 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: Grassland Oregon

Benjamin Franklin was right on the money about all of us being able to count on death and taxes at some point in time, but he overlooked one other guarantee – drought. Even now, just a few months after certain parts of the country have seen waters recede following unprecedented flooding this spring, the United States Drought Monitor is showing areas of drought pop up in the Pacific Northwest, Corn Belt, Southeast and majority of Texas and Oklahoma. Find out more in this article from Grassland Oregon.