CISCO Seeds, Robison Farms, and Dougherty Fertilizer are sponsoring a Cover Crop Field Day and Root Dig at the Greenwood, Indiana farm. If you’ve not had an opportunity to see cover crops in a real life farm setting, this will be a great meeting for you . There will be multiple species available to look […]
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My wife Sally must love me…or at least she is observant to see how cover crops are improving the soil in our family gardens. Over the nearly 19 years we have lived in our home we have had a garden where we often have raised vegetables for the Hispanic families that we minister to. A
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In the summer of 2010 I entered a number of “cover crop” radishes into research plots in Michigan and Minnesota. Some of the products I entered were given to me from a supplier in Oregon. They had collected seed samples from Europe that had been touted as cover crop worthy. They weren’t. Fortunately those varieties
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After several months of trying to arrange schedules between a number of very busy men we have now set dates and times for training pilots on aerial applying cover crops. Click here for the CoverCropWebinarFlyer. There are Two Sessions Available: August 29 from 7-8 p.m (CST) August 30 from 6-7 a.m. (CST) Limit: 25 people/session Cost: $100/login Please
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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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Would you like to learn more about cover crops without leaving your office or home? If so, I have great news for you. There are three recorded webinars available from CISCO Seeds. These webinars were sponsored by N-Vest(R) Cover Crops and put on by Barry Fisher, Eileen Kladivko, and Mike Plumer. These are three of
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“Planting this corn field was like planting into a garden” said my friend Dave. He has been a ‘cover cropper” for six years now. This year Dave no-tilled approximately 50% of his acres. Dave is one of the most innovative guys I know…but he’s also “cautious”; he does not want to lose money! That’s why
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I’m excited to report that there will be a training school in the summer of 2011 for aerial applicators that want to fly on cover crops! The planning for this meeting has been going on for some time with Dave Eby from AgriFlite Services, Inc, myself, and Dennis R. Gardisser, Ph.D, P.E. from WRK of Arkansas, LLC. At
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