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Over the past year I have had the honor and privilege of working with a group of university, NRCS, and ARS professionals on putting together the Midwest Cover Crop Field Guide. This guide (pocket sized) is pretty specific to the Midwestern part of the USA. However, many of the species can be used in other parts . . . → Read More: “Midwest Cover Crops Field Guide” Now Available  
Over the winter of 2011-12 I did nearly 55 cover crop meetings across the Midwest. And one of the “hottest” topics was how to kill annual ryegrass in the spring. This topic is almost like the Tim Tebow of the cover crop world. Some have no problems managing it and some hate it (cannot get . . . → Read More: Killing Cover Crop Annual Ryegrass – How Are We Doing? 
During the first week of April I was in several root pits in northwest Indiana and boy did we find plenty of interesting factoids! I was assisted by Eileen Kladivko from Purdue University on one day and Barry Fisher, Indiana NRCS State Agronomist, on another day. What We Found in the Cover Crop Root Pits . . . → Read More: Cover Crop Root Pits Reveal Plenty  3 comments  Breaking Up Compaction, Cover Crop Benefits, Cover Crop Roots, Cover Crops and Earthworms, Education, Field Days, Grazing Cover Crops, Soil Improvement  Annual Ryegrass, beef cattle, cover crops, Crimson Clover, drought stress, earthworms, grazing cover crops, no-till, Oats, Radishes, roots, worms 
Cover Crop Radishes or Turnips as a Cover Crop – or Both? Cover crop radishes certainly receive a lot of press. I have researched them quiet a bit over the past four years. On this blog alone I have over 20 posts about radishes. They are fun to take photos of, dig around in, research, . . . → Read More: Cover Crop Turnips – A Good Choice Over Radishes? 
In late September of 2011 I was walking in our family corn field in central Indiana–in the pouring rain. Following the wettest spring in the eastern corn belt in 100 years we had a summertime drought that saw less than 2 inches in July and August combined. In that same time period we had 32 . . . → Read More: Cover Crops Enhance Water Infiltration/Percolation |
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