Cover Crop Strategies

6 days ago | covercropstrategies.com | Mackane Vogel

Cover Crop Strategies editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week:No-Tilling 4 Million Seeds of AlfalfaHow to Avoid Wasting Money with Cover CropsAre Cover Crops the Answer for Healthier Soil? Do Drone Sown Cover Crops Prevent Nitrate Leaching? Are Cover Crops Really Worth It?

1 week ago | covercropstrategies.com | Noah Newman

Earlier this week I had a chance to catch up with Lisa Kubik. She’s an Iowa grower who grazes cattle and grows corn, soybeans and cover crops, but she also works with growers through Agoro Carbon Alliance. She told me about a cover crop case study and another Iowa farmer she recently worked with who saw great cover crop success by — get this — accidentally planting green. Here’s Lisa with the full story.

1 week ago | covercropstrategies.com | Mackane Vogel

Play the latest episode:“With a lot of our farms, we have a plan going in and sometimes it doesn’t work out quite like we planned.”— Lisa Kubik, Iowa Grower & Account Executive, Agoro Carbon Alliance In today’s episode of the podcast, brought to you by the National Strip-Tillage Conference, listen to a conversation with Lisa Kubik, an Iowa grower who grazes cattle and grows corn, soybeans and cover crops, while also working with growers through Agoro Carbon Alliance.

1 week ago | covercropstrategies.com | Mackane Vogel

Cover Crop Strategies editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week:Which Cover Crop Termination Method is Right for Your Farm? Making Cover Crops & No-Till Work Without More EquipmentAre Cover Crops the Answer for Healthier Soil? Is This the Year to Try Planting Green?

2 weeks ago | covercropstrategies.com | Mackane Vogel

Weeds continue to be one of the most yield-limiting factors in no-till crop production, but thankfully, there are new ways of dealing with them when the right tools are sought out and used. Research from Ohio State University shows when left unmanaged, weeds can cause up to 80% yield loss in the Midwest.