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Planting Cover Crop Radishes with Wheat – A Growing Practice Cover crop radishes planted with wheat at seeding time? Last year I posted about how farmers in NW Ohio are seeing increases in wheat yields by 4-7 bu/acre by planting 2-4# of cover crop radishes in with their wheat seed. In the fall of 2010 . . . → Read More: Planting cover crop radishes with wheat? How do you plant them?  
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 
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). . . . → Read More: Cover Crop Cereal Rye: Is there a (bad) connection with Goss’s Wilt in corn? 
My cover cropping and no-till friend Dave from Central Indiana has allowed us to look in at his farming operation this year. (Did you notice I have friends named Dave who plant cover crops?) - In previous posts Dave has shared about his no-till planting and spraying soybeans into cover crop cereal rye and later . . . → Read More: Photo Diary – Soybeans planted into a Cereal Rye cover crop – part 3 
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  4 comments  Austrian Winter Peas, Cover Crop Benefits, Cover Crop Challenges, Delayed Spring Planting, Planting into Tall Austrian Winter Peas, Seed Selection: What to Plant After..., Stand Establishment Following Cover Crops, Types of Cover Crops, Wheat, Winterhardiness  Austrian Winter Peas, Cover Crop Benefits, cover crop radishes, cover crops, no-tilling into winter peas |
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