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Cover Crops

Production information and insight into the best ways to maximize this innovative approach to crop production.

Highlights

barley plants at sunset

Grass cover crops can be bargain feed or bedding

Feb 27, 2020

Buckeye Beef Brief: Grass cover crops can produce high-quality forage when harvested in the boot stage.

Cover crops on an Iowa field.

USDA launches cover crop pilot in Prairie Pothole region

Feb 27, 2020

Conservation Reserve Program Soil Health and Income Protection Program enables producers to receive payments for...

A recent study has shown that using cover crops can help fight glyphosateresistant Palmer amaranth Published in the journal Weed Technology researchers found in the first two weeks of the study that the grass and legume combination produced the most biomass and reduced emergence of glyphosateresistant Palmer amaranth by half compared to test plots with no cover crop nbspThe least impactful cover crops were crimson clover and hairy vetchldquoWhile there is no single solution for seasonlong co

Managing residual herbicides with cover crops

Feb 25, 2020

Will the cover crop interfere with the performance of residual herbicides included with the burndown treatment?