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A Win-Win for Cover Crops in the Chesapeake Bay

By John Dobberstein posted on May 24, 2019 | Posted in Soil Health

Cover crops have been a key tool for protecting water quality in the Chesapeake Bay region and helping farmers improve soil tilth and health, but regulating nitrogen (N) with covers has proven difficult. Read what Penn State University researchers discovered about the ability of different species to sequester and fix N.

Answering Basic Questions About Cover Crops and Nitrogen Credits

April 24, 2019 | Posted in Soil Health, Economics

Source: University of Minnesota Extension

University of Minnesota Extension educator Greg Klinger answers some questions he's been getting on how cover crops can impact nitrogen credits for corn grown after soybeans.

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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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