As I take phone calls and conduct meetings I ask producers if they want to have the cover crop they are choosing to overwinter or die during the winter. I’d guess that the answer as split 50/50. The biggest reason for wanting the cover crop to die is that producers don’t want to have “to […]
What if a cover crop dies over the winter…was it still valuable? Read More »
This question keeps coming up on a regular basis in cover crop meetings….”where is my nitrogen?”
There are a number of things we know:
* Legumes produce N and some of that N is available for the next crop.
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In this post we look at two more videos of mixes on December 2, 2010. This first mix in this session is of Austrian Winter Peas and GroundHog Radishes. The seeding rate is 30# Peas and 5# of Radish per acre. The main thing we observe in this plot is the larger radishes than we
Cover Crop plots in December-What can we tell now? part 2 Read More »