My cover cropping and no-till friend Dave from Central Indiana has allowed us to look in at his farming operation this year. (Did you notice I have friends named Dave who plant cover crops?) – In previous posts Dave has shared about his no-till planting and spraying soybeans into cover crop cereal rye and later […]
Photo Diary – Soybeans planted into a Cereal Rye cover crop – part 3 Read More »
In Mid-August I had the honor of speaking at a cover crop field day in Tipton County, Indiana. At that field day there were some root pits dug that were quite interesting. One of the pits was in an area where some top soil had been removed and fill dirt had been put back over
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One of the most popular cover crops is winter cereal rye. It is a very versatile cover crop that has few disadvantages. While it does not have the deep, nor fibrous root system that annual ryegrass has, it reportedly has had 45″ deep roots found in north-central Indiana in May. Winter cereal rye can be