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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 
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 
Many cover crops were planted in September and even into early October in much of the Midwest in 2011. Some of those cover crops are not very advanced in their growth by mid-November. Does this mean that they are useless or worthless? As I often say in meetings or at field days…”always take a shovel . . . → Read More: Short Cover Crops Put Down Deep Roots 
My wife Sally must love me…or at least she is observant to see how cover crops are improving the soil in our family gardens. Over the nearly 19 years we have lived in our home we have had a garden where we often have raised vegetables for the Hispanic families that we minister to. A . . . → Read More: Cover crops for gardens – and my wife, the cover cropping queen! Leave a comment Austrian Winter Peas, Breaking Up Compaction, Cover Crop Benefits, Cover Crop Roots, Cover Crops and Earthworms, Crimson Clover, Education, Red Clover, Soil Improvement, Turnips, Types of Cover Crops, Weed Suppression chilis, cover crops, earthworms, flowers, improved varieties. cover crops for gardens, peppers, reducing compaction Robison Farms in the Greenwood, Indiana area have been no-till farming since the late 1960′s. The field that these videos were taken from has been no-tilled for approximately 20 consecutive years. With the wet spring of 2011 the gentleman that now does the field work for dad decided to chisel plow and disk most of . . . → Read More: Earthworm Population Corn Field Experiment |
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