The first day of December brought the first day of snow in northern Indiana. After the inch or so of snow and some Arctic air the cover crops are shutting down. Over the past three weeks we received around 5″ of rain so the cover crops were actually growing fairly well heading into December. Now […]
Cover Crop plots in December-What can we tell now? Read More »
While Radishes are a fairly new phenomena for cover crops they are certainly NOT a new crop. This presentation shows some of the facts and myths about Radishes.
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The video below shows the value of Crimson Clover in a cover crop setting. Crimson clover has been tested and shown to produce as much as 140#/N after it has been planted after wheat. The plots in this video were planted around July 29, 2010 by the Jasper and Newton County SWCD folks (Thanks Dan
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