While it is essential to get your seed ordered as soon as possible for fall planting, ensuring the quality is also paramount.
In part two of the Cover Crop Corner series, David Kleinschmidt covers key factors producers need to consider and what data to collect during farm trials.
Farmers and ranchers need to be diligent when it comes to cover crop seed purchases this year after last year’s record cover crop enrollment.
Throughout our Cover Crop Corner series, the use of on farm trials has shown to optimize performance and ensure successful integration into broad practice.
The Cover Crop Information Map currently has more than 200 pieces of research and trial summaries on different topics such as compaction and planting green.
An increasingly popular practice is to plant cash crops directly into living cover crops. The science shows it can push the benefits of their cover crops.
Soybean producers who didn’t manage to get a cover crop mixture in the ground last fall still have time to cash in on the benefits ahead of spring planting.
This article was written by Don Baune, co-founder of GO SEED (formerly known as Grassland Oregon), and is republished with permission as part of AGDAILY’s focus on cover crops. For alfalfa producers needing to renovate fields suffering from winterkill or looking to increase the quality and yield of this season’s hay crop, improved cover crop […]
To see notable improvement and hit your cover crop goals, specific areas you want to progress must be outlined so that a plan can be formed accordingly.
This article was written by Risa Demasi, co-founder of Grassland Oregon, and is republished with permission as part of AGDAILY’s focus on cover crops. As we look back through the last 12 months, it is safe to say 2019 was a trying time for most agricultural producers. From unprecedented flooding during critical planting periods leading […]