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Growing Cover Crops After Small Grains

September 3, 2019 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: Farm Forum

Due to an extremely wet spring and consistent moisture through the summer, grain harvests have slowed down a bit across South Dakota. According to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (as of Aug 18) only 76% of winter wheat harvest has been completed in the state well behind 95% of five-year average. Similarly, only 27% of spring wheat and 60% of oat are harvested, well behind 75% and 90% five-year average respectively. Read more in this article from Farm Forum.

Cover Crop Considerations After Small Grain Harvest

July 19, 2019 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: Penn State University Extension

Wheat and barley harvest is underway in many parts of Pennsylvania and oat harvest is not far away. Find out more about establishing a cover crop after harvest in this article from Penn State University.

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An Accidental Cover Crop Experiment

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.

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