Cover Crop Problems? I often hear folks saying that farmers should be careful planting into cover crops. There is fear that: “there will be slugs.” you “can’t adequately kill the cover crops.” you can’t depend on getting a “normal” stand. Well, here we are after one of the wettest Springs in the Eastern Corn Belt […]
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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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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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