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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 look at . . . → 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 The Crimson clover had dense roots and we found a number of them at over 40″ deep. At cover crop field days over the past few weeks many interesting aspects of cover crops were revealed. One reminder about cover crops; it is NOT what is above ground that is the best indicator of success. . . . → Read More: Cover Crops underground…I was not disappointed, I was a bit surprised! 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 in them . . . → Read More: We’re digging root pits! While field days like this one at Mike Werling's farm in Adams/Allen Counties, IN are exciting, indoor meetings are a great way to share what we saw over broad geographic areas this past fall. Watch your mailbox for an invitation from your local SWCD, NRCS, or extension office for dates for cover crop meetings! Over . . . → Read More: Cover Crop Meetings Galore! |
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