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The Importance of Sunshine in Cover Crop Establishment

By Dave, on November 21st, 2011%
This photo taken November 22, 2011 shows cover crops flown into corn, a 3.4 maturity soybean (center), aqnd a 3.0 maturity soybean (top). The same cover crop was flown into all three sections on the same passes of the plane. The difference...Sunlight getting to the soil.

On October 18, 2011 the cover crops are looking quite different in one section of the field than the other…the main reasons? The maturity of the soybean variety planted and row width.

In previous posts I have shared about the importance of applying cover crops at the correct time.  I also looked at the . . . → Read More: The Importance of Sunshine in Cover Crop Establishment

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Cover Crop Cereal Rye: Is there a (bad) connection with Goss’s Wilt in corn?

By Dave, on September 28th, 2011%
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Goss's Wilt is becoming quite a problem in the US Corn Belt.

Cover crop cereal rye has been getting some “bad press” over the past month. It has been suggested that there is a connection with cover crop rye and Goss’s Wilt in corn (cereal rye making the Goss’s Wilt disease worse in corn).

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Farmer Report from Ohio – Planting into “Out of Control” Peas

By Dave, on September 6th, 2011%
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The cover crop radishes varied in size with the amount of moisture in the field in the fall of 2010.

My good friend David from Mercer County, Ohio is a great cover crop advocate.  Over the past few years he and his father-in-law have begun planting cover crops after their wheat crop is harvested.  . . . → Read More: Farmer Report from Ohio – Planting into “Out of Control” Peas

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Medium Red Clover as a cover crop

By Dave, on March 3rd, 2011%

Medium Red Clover frost seeded into wheat provides good nitrogen production and excellent forage/green manure.

Frost seeding clover into wheat has been a standard practice for many years.  Many producers have used “60/40 Plowdown Clover” in their wheat…but in many areas that practice has stopped as double crop soybean plantings have pushed further into . . . → Read More: Medium Red Clover as a cover crop

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Radish planted with wheat (at seeding time) adds yield? There are a bunch of farmers saying “yes, it does!”

By Dave, on August 23rd, 2010%

While in northwest Ohio in the Fall of 2010 for a manure management field day, some area farmers told me that wheat producers are adding 2-4# of cover crop radishes per acre to the wheat in the drill…and experiencing excellent results.

Some reported gaining 5-7 bushels per acre by adding the radishes.  Others even reduced their nitrogen application by 20% . . . → Read More: Radish planted with wheat (at seeding time) adds yield? There are a bunch of farmers saying “yes, it does!”

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