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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: July 11, 2025

By Mackane Vogel posted on July 11, 2025

This Week's Lineup:

Busch Light Farmer Cans Are Back!
Planting Green and No-Tilling Corn with Compost Extract
Cover Crops Help Increase Yields, Bolster Soil Health
Using Cover Crops to Reduce Pesticide Use & Increase Soil Activity
No-Till Legend Marion Calmer Celebrates Wedding

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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: June 13, 2025

By Mackane Vogel posted on June 13, 2025

Cover Crop Strategies editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week.

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Planting Green… By Accident?

By Noah Newman posted on May 2, 2025 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag, Product Innovations & Introductions

Earlier this week I had a chance to catch up with Lisa Kubik. She’s an Iowa grower who grazes cattle and grows corn, soybeans and cover crops, but she also works with growers through Agoro Carbon Alliance. She told me about a cover crop case study and another Iowa farmer she recently worked with who saw great cover crop success by — get this — accidentally planting green.

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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: May 2, 2025

By Mackane Vogel posted on May 2, 2025

Cover Crop Strategies editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week.

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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: April 25, 2025

By Mackane Vogel posted on April 25, 2025

Cover Crop Strategies editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week.

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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: May 24, 2024

May 24, 2024

Cover Crop Strategies editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week. The Best of the Web This Week series is brought to you by Saddle Butte Ag.

Lower Seeding Rates Produce Same Results as Extra Seeds for Winter Legume Covers

Similar biomass and weed suppression seen for legumes regardless of seeding rate.

September 21, 2022 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

Source: Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station

The study also found that each legume type has similar weed suppression regardless of the seeding rate. However, some of the legumes were better at suppressing weeds.

Cover Crops in the Spotlight at Beck's Field Show

September 14, 2022 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

Source: Ag Update: Farm and Ranch Guide

During his presentations in the Cover Crop Tent at the show, Ryan Moore, small seed product manager for Beck's, told farmers their overall goal should be to get into a “no-till situation” when establishing a program.

Seeding Rates for Broadcasting Cover Crops into Late-Season Corn, Soybeans

September 6, 2022 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

Source: University of Nebraska

Broadcast seeds do not have good seed-soil contact, which reduces the seed’s ability to take up water necessary for germination. Stand counts of broadcast cover crops are often lower than those of drilled cover crops. Could increasing the seeding rate overcome low stand counts and improve cover crop productivity?

Comparing Pros and Cons of Various Cover Crop Planting Methods

September 6, 2022 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

Source: University of Nebraska

While planting cover crops after harvest with a drill or planter may be the most convenient, there are several other planting methods that can increase cover crop success as measured by biomass production.