Frost seeding clover into wheat has been a standard practice for many years. Many producers have used “60/40 Plowdown Clover” in their wheat…but in many areas that practice has stopped as double crop soybean plantings have pushed further into northern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. If double crop soybeans are not an option (or not desired) […]
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What an exciting scene in Ada, OH to see nearly 400 farmers in the chapel listening to sessions on cover crops. I’ll report more later on the CTC meetings but it was quite satisfying to the folks from Ohio State that so many producers are interested in cover crops. Congrats to Alan, Jim, Randall, Mark,
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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 decided to take out the snow shovel and dig in my cover crop plots to see what was going on. On
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