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Study Shows Cover Crops Can Provide Immediate Success

By Cover Crop Strategies Staff posted on August 4, 2026 | Posted in Economics, Seeding Practices

Independent research agronomist Jim Stute recently unveiled the results of a long-term study of the economic and weed suppression effects of cover crop adoption and management in southeast Wisconsin.

A Meeting of the Minds — Conservation Ag Style

By Mackane Vogel posted on July 31, 2025 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag, Soil Health

NACD's Annual Summer Meeting moves around from city to city each year but with our home court as the location for this year, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get together with like-minded conservation ag-focused folks and see what the week had in store.

Even With Minimal Biomass, Cereal Rye's Allelopathic Effect Suppresses Weeds in No-Till Soybeans

By Michaela Paukner posted on July 26, 2025 | Posted in Soil Health

Jim Stute says data from his latest trial makes the case for the rye’s ability to hold back weeds, even with minimal biomass.

Cover Crops

When Is the Best Time to Terminate Cereal Rye to Suppress Weeds & Protect No-Till Soybean Yield?

1st year of research shows that between 7-14 days after soybean emergence, rye increases weed suppression by 5.3% per day but hurts yield by about ½ bushel per day

By Michaela Paukner posted on April 24, 2024 | Posted in Termination

74% of the farmers who responded to the 2024 Cover Crops Operational Practices Survey say cover crops provide at least some level of weed suppression in their fields.

[Podcast] Make Cover Crops Work with Your Tillage Practices

In this episode of the Cover Crop Strategies podcast, brought to you by Go Seed, a panel of 3 farmers discuss how they use cover crops with their varying tillage practices.

September 29, 2023 | Posted in Seeding Practices

In this episode of the Cover Crop Strategies podcast, brought to you by Go Seed, a panel of 3 farmers discuss how they use cover crops with their varying tillage practices.

Conservation Ag Update

No-Till & Cover Crops Paying Off in Drought Conditions

By Noah Newman posted on June 16, 2023 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag

In this episode of Conservation Ag Update, we explore how no-tillers are holding up in abnormally dry conditions throughout most of the U.S. Independent agronomist Jim Stute checks in from southeastern Wisconsin, and no-tiller Ryan Gibbs reports from eastern Iowa, where both areas have received minimal rainfall since April. This episode of Conservation Ag Update is brought to you by Saddle Butte Ag Bio Till Cover Crops.

Free Webinar: Planting Green to Suppress Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds

National Cover-Crop Summit Returns March 14-16

February 17, 2023 | Posted in Soil Health

Attend Jim Stute's upcoming virtual session for the National Cover Crop Summit where you'll learn how planting green fits into an overall resistance management system as well as how rye termination timing impacts weed suppression, soybean development and yield.

[Podcast] Analyzing Glyphosate Resistant Weeds and Yield Response to Different Cover Crops

June 23, 2022 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

In this edition of the Cover Crop Strategies podcast, brought to you by La Crosse Seed, managing editor Julia Gerlach sits down with Jim Stute, an independent research agronomist who’s been studying cover crops since the 1980s.