Higher Yields - Plant Cover Crops

Nutrient Scavenging Cover Crops – How much good are they doing? It depends.

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Meet the Cover Crop Scavengers Over the years I have worked with cover crops I have recommended that producers use “scavengers” like Annual Ryegrass, turnips, cereal rye, winter barley, oats, and cover crop radishes. These cover crops do a very good job of capturing excess nitrogen and other nutrients and keeping them from reaching the […]

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Planting cover crop radishes with wheat? How do you plant them?

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Planting Cover Crop Radishes with Wheat – A Growing Practice Cover crop radishes planted with wheat at seeding time? Last year I posted about how farmers in NW Ohio are seeing increases in wheat yields by 4-7 bu/acre by planting 2-4# of cover crop radishes in with their wheat seed. In the fall of 2010

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Photo Diary – Soybeans planted into a Cereal Rye cover crop- part 2

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I am so pleased to present these photos of how well my friend Dave’s soybeans planted into tall cereal rye looks. Dave is from central Indiana between Indy and Lafayette. See the previous photo diary here. I know Dave gained lots of encouragement to try this from Howard and Mike Weller from the Continental, Ohio

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