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Tag Archives: cover crops
Videos about Successful Annual Ryegrass Planting and Forage Applications
Two of the most popular videos on the Ryegrass Cover crop YouTube site are: Discovering the Benefits of Annual Ryegrass as a Cover Crop Growing Ryegrass as a Forage Crop In the first, Mike Plumer and others talk about the … Continue reading
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Tagged Annual ryegrass, cover crops, forage crop, management of annual ryegrass
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Cattle Ranchers Talk Cover Crops and Forage on Their Feedlots and Farms
Shane and Shawn Tiffany are young, energetic Kansas ranchers, who earned their stripes working for other ranchers before starting their own company in the early 2000s. Tiffany Cattle Company is small by comparison, but the men have already begun to … Continue reading
Farmer Success Stories with Annual Ryegrass
Over the past 20 years, tens of thousands of farms across the Midwest have quit tillage practices because they harm the soil. Instead, they’ve gone to no-till and cover crops. To review reasons to switch to cover crops, click here … Continue reading
How to Pull Nitrogen into Corn with Annual Ryegrass
One of the dozen benefits from planting a cover crop like annual ryegrass is to sequester, or uptake, available nitrogen (N) in the soil. This is accomplished mostly by reducing the amount of N that leaches out of the field … Continue reading
Ryegrass, Good for a Climate Goin’ Through Some Changes
Science tends to win out over guesswork. Few would disavow centuries of medical experience in favor of hocus-pocus and suspicions. Similarly, those with decades of working the soil tend to heed the sciences pertinent to agriculture, rather than winging it … Continue reading
Grass Roots are Important – Whether in Politics or in Cover Crops
This recent election proved again why “grass roots” are important. More than colorful flyers and 30-second ads can ever do, grass roots is where democracy started, and continues to start each election cycle. The more money being thrown at negative … Continue reading
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Recalling a Man Who Put Annual Ryegrass on the Cover Crop Map
Mike Plumer was a guy who made sure he knew what he was talking about before he’d open his mouth. He didn’t tout his academic degrees or his professional experience as much as giving you the benefit of his … Continue reading
Nitrogen and Carbon – Two More Benefits of Annual Ryegrass
In the last blog post, we addressed the myth of annual ryegrass being hard to manage. Follow good control procedures and it is not an issue whatsoever. Two other assets of annual ryegrass: it creates a savings in expenditures for … Continue reading
The Myth of Annual Ryegrass as a Cover Crop
They say, “It’s hard to control annual ryegrass”. As myths go, it’s tame. They used to say that “stepping on a crack would break your grandma’s back.” They used to think that spiders were bad luck. For 20 years now, … Continue reading
National Effort to Expand Use of Cover Crops
The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research launched a national effort to expand use of cover crops. Called the Healthy Soils, Thriving Farms initiative, the group includes the USDA as well. It is a collaborative, multi-partner research effort to improve soil health in the … Continue reading