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An Excellent Cover Crop Mix Ahead of Corn

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Planting corn next spring? Choose the right cover crop in the fall to give your crop the maximum opportunity for high yields.

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Results of Farmer Cover Crop Survey Conducted by SARE and CTIC

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Folks, If you want to see how cover crops provide a very good ROI across a wide geographic region then this report is for you! Thanks to Rob Meyers from SARE and the folks at CTIC for conducting and publishing this survey. It helps me to see that the results on our home farm (and

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Prevented Planting Seeding Options

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I recorded this video a few weeks ago for the seed company I work for. After receiving numerous calls and e-mails asking for help on what to plant, I decided to put this presentation together. Many of the options I mentioned as being viable to plant in mid-June can still be planted in July. Please

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Cover Crops and Prevented Planting Guidelines

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Over the past few weeks I have heard from countless farmers in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, and Iowa that are considering taking prevented planting on all or parts of their farms. Growers Edge just published an excellent piece Prevented Planting Guidelines. Also see my articles on Prevented Planting Row Crop Acres – Which Cover

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NRCS Cover Crop Termination Guidelines Non-Irrigated Cropland

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I appreciate Mike Baise from American Farmland Trust for sending me the document NRCS Cover Crop Termination Guidelines Non-Irrigated Cropland. The document was published June 2013 and should be very helpful to everyone using cover crops.

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“Tracking Phosphorus Fresh from the Farm”

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I recently saw a newspaper article “Tracking Phosphorous Fresh from the Farm” written by Spencer Hunt (shunt@dispatch.com) from The Columbus Dispatch Sunday May 26, 2013 9:03 AM and I found it to be a good read. There are great things going on to help farmers do their best to be good stewards of the land

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Prevented Planting Row Crop Acres – Which Cover Crops Can Help?

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The following was originally posted on May 27, 2011 when the Eastern Corn Belt was suffering with severe flooding and wet conditions. In 2013 the Upper Midwest – especially Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin – is flooded and wet. Many farmers are considering taking the crop insurance for prevented planting. Even if it would stop raining

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Summer Annual Grasses for Cover Crops for Prevented Planting Acres

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With an abundance of prevented planting acres in Wisconsin and Minnesota in 2013, there is a need for cover crops to help build soil during the soil’s “idle” time. In this post I’ll mainly focus on summer annual grasses that work well in the Midwest. These recommendations will focus on whether feed is needed or

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