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Advantages of Adding Buckwheat

By Cover Crop Strategies Staff posted on August 20, 2026 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health, Termination

If we pick up a farm that's been conventionally farmed, we like to get some cover crop in there such as a buckwheat," said David Brandt.

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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: May 29, 2026

By Kendra Downing posted on May 29, 2026

This Week's Lineup:

Cover Crops and their Ripple Effect

Warm Season Cover Crops: Green Cover Seed Podcast
Mixed Cover Crops, No-Till and, Farm Stewardship Webinar
Cover Crop Management Decisions, Soil Health and Microorganisms
Cover Crops and Nematodes

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[Video] New Syngenta Product Protects Root Systems from Root-Knot Nematode

By Mackane Vogel posted on September 15, 2025 | Posted in Product Innovations & Introductions

In this video from the 2025 Farm Progress Show, Dale Ireland, Technical Product Lead for Syngenta, leads a demonstration showcasing a new Syngenta product that will protect plant root systems from Nematodes.

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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: May 16, 2025

By Mackane Vogel posted on May 16, 2025

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.

Set a Trap for Your Pests!

By John Dobberstein posted on January 21, 2025 | Posted in Soil Health

No-tillers looking for a new tool to fight pests might look back at history again and see what a trap crop might do on a small area of their farm. You’ll never know for sure unless you experiment.

Fight Back Against Nematodes with Cover Crops

By Sarah Hill posted on November 6, 2019

Nematodes. Some types of these microscopic roundworms can be beneficial, but some are also parasites, causing serious damage to plant roots or even killing crops. There has been some research published about the ability of cover crops to manage plant-parasitic nematodes, since the roundworms can only move very short distances on their own.

[Video] Using Cover Crops for Diverse Benefits

August 13, 2019 | Posted in Soil Health

John Burk and his father farm 2,500 acres of corn, soybeans, sugar beets and wheat in Bay City, Mich. They pair different cover crops with a variety of cash crops to achieve soil benefits, including red clover, oilseed radish, oats and rye.

Healing Battered Fields, Pastures with Adaptive Grazing

Growers with livestock can improve soil health and increase forage production by moving animals more frequently, controlling field access and increasing recovery times for plants, says grazing consultant Allen Williams.

February 1, 2019 | Posted in Grazing, Soil Health

As Allen Williams sees it, the world’s “oldest watering system” is the symbiotic relationship between plants and the soil, which mediates 90% of plant function.