Managing Cereal Rye
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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Cover Crops underground…I was not disappointed, I was a bit surprised!
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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What herbicides can I use and still plant cover crops?
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’re digging root pits!
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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Cover Crop Annual Ryegrass – Kill it dead!
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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Federal Crop Insurance and cover crops that live through the winter
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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Medium Red Clover as a cover crop
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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Cover Crops Under the Snow – What’s Happening?
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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