Summer annual grasses for cover crops for prevented planting acres

By Dave, on June 4th, 2011%

With an abundance of prevented planting acres in Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana in 2011 there is a need for cover crops to help build soil during the soil’s “idle” time. I previously wrote about which cover crops could help and focused mainly on oats and legumes.  In this post I’ll mainly focus on summer annual grasses . . . → Read More: Summer annual grasses for cover crops for prevented planting acres

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Federal Crop Insurance and cover crops that live through the winter

By Dave, on March 7th, 2011%

This field in NW Indiana looks great coming out of the winter. Are there special considerations when it comes to crop insurance?

If you have cover crops that live through the winter and also take out Federal crop insurance there are some documents that are important to review.  Most of us have some . . . → Read More: Federal Crop Insurance and cover crops that live through the winter

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