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Guest Blog

Forage Matters: Cover Crops, Grazing & Nitrogen Fixation

By James Rogers posted on May 4, 2026 | Posted in Grazing

Legumes do have the ability, when conditions are right, to fix large amounts of nitrogen, no doubt about that. To capture the most of that fixed nitrogen, the legume should be cycled back into the soil through plant decay or by grazing and cycling through the animal and back to the soil.

Microbes, Mycorrhizae Key to Understanding Nutrient Content of Cover Crops

No-Till Innovator Jim Hoorman unearths relationship between cover crops & nutrient content in the soil

By Mackane Vogel posted on July 8, 2025 | Posted in Soil Health

Understanding the nutrient content of cover crops can be challenging because it depends on many different factors.

This Week

Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: May 2, 2025

By Mackane Vogel posted on May 2, 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.

Study Highlights Benefits of Multi-Species Cover Crop Mixes

By Jordan Strickler posted on July 24, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

Source: Phys.org

A University of Kentucky study titled "Productivity benefits of cereal-legume cover crop mixtures under variable soil nitrogen and termination times" suggests that mixing cover crops is a beneficial strategy for modern agriculture.

Earthworms Play Vital Role for Growers Using Cover Crops

By Clay Pope posted on November 6, 2023 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: Southern Plains Perspective

As we have said so often—production agriculture and environmental protection really can go hand in hand. If we take care of the worms, (and with them the rest of the microbial community) they really can help save the day.

[Podcast] John Wallace: Interseed Cover Crops Early Into Corn for Maximum Growth

On this week’s edition of Cover Crop Strategies, brought to you by SOURCE®? by Sound Agriculture., Penn State's John Wallace discusses why the V4-V5 growth stage is the best time to put cover crops into standing corn.

November 1, 2022 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

On this week’s edition of Cover Crop Strategies, brought to you by SOURCE®? by Sound Agriculture., Penn State's John Wallace discusses why the V4-V5 growth stage is the best time to put cover crops into standing corn.

Lower Seeding Rates Produce Same Results as Extra Seeds for Winter Legume Covers

Similar biomass and weed suppression seen for legumes regardless of seeding rate.

September 21, 2022 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

Source: Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station

The study also found that each legume type has similar weed suppression regardless of the seeding rate. However, some of the legumes were better at suppressing weeds.

[Video] Mix It Up with Cover Crops

October 14, 2020 | Posted in Seeding Practices

In this video from University of Arkansas Extension, find out how different types of cover crop work together in cover crop mixes to improve the soil, how cover crop mixes can maximize cash crops, how to choose cover crop species for a mix, and more.

[Video] Cover Crops & Fruit/Vegetables

September 10, 2020 | Posted in Grazing

In this video from University of Arkansas Extension, find out why cover crops are a good choice to use with fruit and vegetable crops, what benefits cover crops provide to fruit and vegetable crops, which cover crop species can help cut fertilizer costs, and more.

"Greedy Beans" Just Not Worth It

August 10, 2020 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: Lancaster Farming

What are “greedy beans,” you ask? That’s simply what some are calling double-cropped soybeans. Find out why the author no longer plants them in this article from Lancaster Farming.