This Week's Lineup:

• Can We Drill the Rye Before the Rain?
• Learning From Local Farmers — Sharing Advice and Experiences
• Making the Most of Every Acre — Cover Crops, Cattle and Goats
• What Does Cover Crop Carbon Actually Cost and Pay?
• Seeding Cover Crops on a Vegetable Farm

This Week's Lineup:

• Young Leaders Conduct Cover Crop Experiment
• Illinois Farmers Recognized For Conservation Efforts
• Cover Crop Economic Decision Tool
• Long-Term Cover Crop Lessons
• Using Cover Crops to Increase Grazing Opportunities

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.

Oats were once a major Minnesota crop, with about 4 million acres planted annually on average until the early 1960s. But in 2025, oats accounted for only 195,000 planted acres in Minnesota, and those oats were used mostly for livestock feed and straw bedding.

Hosted by the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC), the tour included a visit to Ryan and Christina Larson’s 1,000-acre strip-till and no-till operation in Garretson, S.D., near the southwestern Minnesota border.

In early July, when conventional farms are still using chemical herbicides to try and keep weeds out of their fallow fields, organic farmer John Wicks is using a different approach.