Cover Crops & No-Till Reduce Crop Insurance Claims According to New Study

March 6, 2023 | Posted in Economics

The extremely wet spring of 2019 caused 14.2 million acres of cropland to go unplanted in the Midwest. Farmers across the region had flooded fields that kept them from getting equipment onto the fields to plant their crops. This resulted in over $4 billion of prevent-plant crop insurance claims, which assists farmers when weather conditions keep them from planting a crop altogether.

Producers Turn to Planting Prevent Plant Cover Crops

June 30, 2022 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

Source: Farm and Ranch Guide

For the first time in two and a half years, there are no areas of dryness in North Dakota, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Producers are now turning to planting prevent plant acres if they can get into the fields and plant a cover crop to protect the soil.

Prevent Plant Ideas for Cover Crops

July 8, 2020 | Posted in Grazing

Source: AgWeek

Options for cover crops after a June harvest of 2019 corn with anticipated crop in 2021 being soybeans. If you have livestock, then the options are limitless and focusing on including a cool season grass (oats or barley), warm season grass (sorghum), cool season legume (peas) and cool season broadleaf (radish) could work really well. Read more in this article from AgWeek.

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Cereal Rye vs. Winter Wheat: Is One Better than the Other?

This week I traveled to Weninger Farms for a Pre-Planting Clinic hosted by the Dodge County Farmers for Healthy Soil & Healthy Water. The event was filled with lots of great discussions and presentations. Here’s Cover Crop Specialist Brendon Blank answering the age old question of which one is better: winter wheat or cereal rye?

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