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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In this post we look at two more videos of mixes on December 2, 2010. This first mix in this session is of Austrian Winter Peas and GroundHog Radishes. The seeding rate is 30# Peas and 5# of Radish per acre. The main thing we observe in this plot is the larger radishes than we
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This video was taken from a cover crop plot in Newton County Indiana. The plot was in a field that was prevented from being planted by water ponding in the Spring of 2010. The mix is called “N-Vest Crimson Cover-All Mix” and is sold by CISCO Seeds. Even with very little moisture, (it was planted in
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After 6 weeks my GroundHog Radish is around 12″ deep and 1″ in circumference at the top. How deep can radish roots go? Because we need to know things like that I have been doing quite a bit of research. The attached chart shows how deep some radishes can go…over 4 feet deep! WOW!
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I planted a cover crop Radish plot over Memorial Day Weekend (5/29) in my garden plot. I have 5 varieties in the plot from around the world. My goal is to see what differences there are in the different Radishes being sold in the USA for cover crops. I replicated the plots so that each
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Oats are one of the more versatile cover crops as they can be planted various times of the season and used as an excellent cover and an excellent forage crop. Oats work well alone, but especially well in mixes with oilseed radishes, turnips, Berseem and Crimson Clovers, and Austrian Winter Peas, etc… Oats work well
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