legume cover crops

Planting Date and Corn Maturity with Legume Covers

By Cover Crop Strategies Staff posted on August 6, 2026 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

A fair question for row crop operations is what happens to corn yield when planting gets pushed back behind a legume cover.

Steve Groff's Winter King Hairy Vetch Survives Multiple Freeze-Thaw Cycles

By Mackane Vogel posted on March 25, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Termination

Steve Groff never planned to develop a new variety of cover crop. In fact, the Holtwood, Pa., no-tiller and cover crop expert believes that he is more often recognized for his contribution of the tillage radish as a cover crop in the early 2000s.

Managing Root Rot in Cover Crops with Pulses

By Sue Roesler posted on February 2, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: The Prairie Star

Producers are increasingly planting cover crops to improve soil quality, help manage weeds or pests, and provide livestock forage – but is root rot a possibility when pulses, specifically peas and lentils, are added to improve the nutrition of the mix?

Growing Nitrogen with Legume Cover Crops

Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for plant growth, but price fluctuations of fertilizers leave farmers looking for alternative solutions. Planting legumes as a cover crop can increase soil nitrogen and perhaps even reduce reliance on fertilizers.

By Brook Wilke posted on May 12, 2023 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag, Soil Health

Source: Michigan State University Extension

Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for plant growth, but price fluctuations of fertilizers leave farmers looking for alternative solutions. Planting legumes as a cover crop can increase soil nitrogen and perhaps even reduce reliance on fertilizers.

Reducing Nitrous Oxide Emissions From Legume Cover Crops, Manure

September 13, 2021 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: Penn State University

The application of manure after the growth and demise of legume cover crops in rotations is a recipe to increase nitrous oxide releases during ensuing corn growth, according to a team of Penn State researchers who conducted a new study.

Have a Plan for Fall Cover Crops

September 25, 2019 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: Kenosha News

As harvest quickly approaches, farmers are looking to get cover crops applied. Aerial applications of cover crop seed began in late August and early September, but for any other methods of application, things might be pushed back. Iowa State Extension Cropping Systems Specialist Mark Licht said the volatile 2019 growing season made things more complicated. Find out more in this article from the Kenosha News.