It’s May 11, 2011 and 4%, that’s right, FOUR PERCENT of the corn is planted in Indiana. Illinois is at 34%, Michigan at 8%, Ohio is at TWO percent, and Iowa is at 69%. This compares to approximately 80% of the corn planted in these states in 2010. The 2006-2010 average for corn planting in […]
It’s May 7, 2011. I received five phone calls yesterday from farmers that have wet fields…flooded fields, and knee high annual ryegrass and winter rye. The question from all five can be summed up as “I wanted to kill my cover crop earlier but it was too cold, now it’s too wet; this stuff is growing
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Here is a very good article from Penn State on managing cereal rye – via the No-Till Farmer website. http://www.no-tillfarmer.com/pages/News—Tips-For-Cereal-Rye-Management.php
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The Crimson clover had dense roots and we found a number of them at over 40″ deep. At cover crop field days over the past few weeks many interesting aspects of cover crops were revealed. One reminder about cover crops; it is NOT what is above ground that is the best indicator of success. Please
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I am NOT a chemical expert. However, there are many experts I rely on when I need answers. One of the most asked questions I have received over the past three weeks is: “What chemical program can I use so that I can plant cover crops?” When it comes to spraying wheat we know that there are
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We are digging root pits to see what happened last fall and over the winter with cover crops. On March 30 we were at Mike Werling’s farm south of Ft. Wayne, IN. We held two cover crop field days at Mike’s over the summer. We looked at the fields that had oats, radishes and peas
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I was recently in a field of ryegrass cover crop that we had looked at earlier and there is still a lot of ryegrass in the field. That sounds good, right? It’s unfortunate that it was volunteer annual ryegrass. This producer had not followed the proper steps to killing his annual ryegrass. We need to
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If you have cover crops that live through the winter and also take out Federal crop insurance there are some documents that are important to review. Most of us have some level of understanding or experience that using cover crops is a sound agronomic practice that helps our farms become more profitable. Most of you
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