Certified Crop Advisors Discussion: Cover Crops vs. Herbicides

September 6, 2023 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: FarmProgress

Does applying herbicides make more sense than seeding cover crops on a weedy field?

Managing Weeds with Cover Crops After Corn Silage

June 27, 2022 | Posted in Soil Health, Termination

Source: South Dakota State University Extension

Herbicides of least concern, (if applied on cash crop according to label) for residual issues on cover crops planted after corn silage would include chemicals like glyphosate, glufosinate, paraquat, 2,4D, dicamba, clopyralid, bromoxynil, bentazon, and diflufenzopyr. Read more in this story from South Dakota State University Extension.

Managing Weeds with Cover Crops After Wheat

May 28, 2021 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: South Dakota State University Extension

Weed control has focused on resistance management, with a greater reliance on residual herbicide programs, use of multiple sites of action at full rates and over lapping residual programs. As use of cover crops have increased in recent years managing weeds through a longer residual herbicide program has become more complicated. Read more in this article from South Dakota State University Extension.

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An Accidental Cover Crop Experiment

Georgetown, Del., no-tiller Jay Baxter was planning on conducting a cover crop experiment with oats, but when Mother Nature got in the way, he quickly pivoted to another idea for a different type of cover crop experiment.

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