Cover crops are working in Iowa! While that may not mean much to my eastern corn belt friends it means a lot in Iowa and the upper Midwest. Working with Sarah Carlson from Practical Farmers of Iowa and Tom Kaspar from ARS at Ames, Iowa, we’ve been attempting to identify what cover crops will be […]
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In a previous post I wrote that cover crops can suppress weeds. And many farmers are planting them with that primary benefit in mind. But, can cover crops become weeds? Unfortunately, the answer is “yes, they can.” Obviously we never want this to happen on our farm. And with good management practices, we can lessen
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Helping Professional Farmers Grow Their Business Advanced Ag Solutions is passionate not just about farming, but farming well. Daryl Starr, owner and operator, founded this business with the idea of taking what he had learned on his family farm, advancing those concepts, and then applying his knowledge to other like-minded farmers. His system revolves around intensive agronomic
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As Oregon and other west coast farmers try to keep up with the demand of getting seed back to the Midwest from their newly harvested crops, we are beginning to see some potential issues with just-harvested seed. In the past, supply was usually greater than demand at harvest time. However, seed companies and farmers now
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Registration information and a tentative schedule have been released for the upcoming Midwest Cover Crops Council meeting, February 28-March 1, 2013, in London, Ontario. The first day of the meeting, titled “Making Sen$e with Cover Crops,” is targeted toward producers interested in learning more about how to successfully incorporate cover crops into their rotation, and
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Below is an exciting announcement from Dr. Eileen Kladivko (Purdue) from the Midwest Cover Crops Council: Fellow MCCC members, The National No-Till Conference, held this past week in Indianapolis, awarded the MCCC with the No-Till Innovator Award for the Organization category! Accepting the award on behalf of the MCCC and the Executive Committee, were Dale
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Here is a survey link for U.S. farmers who have grown cover crops in recent years. This is a survey sponsored by the USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program and being carried out by the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC). This survey about cover crops is brief and can be completed online in
Cover Crops: Will I Get a Return on Investment Over the past two months my brother Don Robison and I have had opportunities in Indiana, Iowa, and Wisconsin to share a presentation entitled “Return On Investment from Cover Crops.” I will do the same in Ontario and Michigan over the next few weeks. Sarah Carlson
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