Over the past year I have had the honor and privilege of working with a group of university, NRCS, and ARS professionals on putting together the Midwest Cover Crop Field Guide. This guide (pocket sized) is pretty specific to the Midwestern part of the USA. However, many of the species can be used in other parts […]
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Over the winter of 2011-12 I did nearly 55 cover crop meetings across the Midwest. And one of the “hottest” topics was how to kill annual ryegrass in the spring. This topic is almost like the Tim Tebow of the cover crop world. Some have no problems managing it and some hate it (cannot get
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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
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