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CISCO Seeds, Robison Farms, and Dougherty Fertilizer are sponsoring a Cover Crop Field Day and Root Dig at the Greenwood, Indiana farm. If you’ve not had an opportunity to see cover crops in a real life farm setting, this will be a great meeting for you . There will be multiple species available to . . . → Read More: Cover Crop Field Day Set at Robison Farms   Leave a comment  Cover Crop Plots, Education, Field Days  aerial application of cover crops, Annual Ryegrass, Austrian Winter Peas, cocktail mixes, compaction, corn, Cover Crop Benefits, cover crop mixes, cover crop plots, cover crop radishes, cover crop seeding rates, cover crops, Crimson Clover, earthworms, flying cover crops into corn, Groundhog radish, no-till, Oats, oats and radishes, oilseed radishes, Radishes, reducing compaction, scavenge nitrogen, seeding rates, soil compaction, soybeans, tillage, timing of planting cover crops, Wheat, Winter Cereal Rye, winter rye 
In the summer of 2010 I entered a number of “cover crop” radishes into research plots in Michigan and Minnesota. Some of the products I entered were given to me from a supplier in Oregon. They had collected seed samples from Europe that had been touted as cover crop worthy. They weren’t. Fortunately those varieties . . . → Read More: Cover Crop Radish Research reveals interesting data and information 
Cover Crop Problems? Corn Planted into Bruiser Annual Ryegrass I often hear folks saying that farmers should be careful planting into cover crops. There is fear that: “there will be slugs.” you “can’t adequately kill the cover crops.” you can’t depend on getting a “normal” stand. Well, here we are after one of the . . . → Read More: Do Cover Crops Hinder Corn Population? We are digging root pits to see what happened last fall and over the winter with cover crops. On March 30 we were at Mike Werling’s farm south of Ft. Wayne, IN. We held two cover crop field days at Mike’s over the summer. We looked at the fields that had oats, radishes and peas . . . → Read More: We’re digging root pits! A blanket of 12" of snow covered my cover crop plots on Feb 12, 2011. What would I find?? Across much of the Corn Belt there has been pretty good snow cover since the beginning of 2011. On February 12, 2011 it was not snowing in my hometown of Winona Lake, IN so I . . . → Read More: Cover Crops Under the Snow – What’s Happening? |
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