Midwestern Wildlife Zone – The Beginning A little over 10 years ago, CISCO Seeds started the Midwestern Wildlife Zone line of products with a couple of mixes. Since then, we’ve kept adding until we reached our current 10 mixes. All we had at our disposal were some on-farm and food plot testimonials, so we determined […]
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One of the many great things about cover crops is that they not only cover and build the soil, they can also be used to feed livestock. That’s an outstanding two-for-one benefit. Our team received this question from a dealer looking for a dairy forage blend for one of his customers to seed once spring
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I’m often asked what my favorite cover crop is after wheat and why. That’s a hard question because there is sufficient growing season after wheat to grow just about anything in the book! Planting cover crops after wheat is a big opportunity to improve the soil, protect it from erosion, grow organic matter and natural
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Soybean Cyst Nematode is the number one pest of soybeans across the US causing more yield loss than the next five diseases combined.
Studies have shown that cover crops such as red clover, sunn hemp, crimson clover, cereal rye, oats, daikon radish, or ryegrass reduce the number of eggs in the soil and/or reduce the number of female SCN on soybeans in the following season.
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Opinion Alert – From here on the lines between accepted agronomic best practices and the flavor of crazy that I prefer get blurry. Farming is an art as well as a science, so keep an open mind.
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Calibrating your seeder for a multi-species cover crop mix can be tricky business. In this video, Dustin Johnson shows how he’s set up his system for success.
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I toured my fields on Friday, December 17, to document the results of cover crops planted in rather desperate conditions back in the fall. The purpose of the video is to show that even late, poorly planted cover crops are doing some good if one takes the time to look at ground level. My
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If I were to make a list of underutilized crops in American agriculture, buckwheat would be near the top. Buckwheat is a short-season broadleaf grain crop that is very easy to grow and can thrive in hot and dry conditions. As a cover crop, it is renowned for its ability to mineralize phosphorus from
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