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Tag Archives: nitrogen scavenging cover crop
Planting Annual Ryegrass – Tips for Success
The last blog post discussed the best planting dates for annual ryegrass, depending on whether you drill or broadcast with plane or high clearance equipment. Many others are broadcasting annual ryegrass seed (after corn harvest) mixed in with manure slurry. … Continue reading
Annual Ryegrass – When to Plant and How Much is Enough?
If you use a no-till drill to plant annual ryegrass, you get better seed to soil contact, but the timing becomes crucial because of crop harvest variability. In the past few years, corn and bean harvests have been later and, … Continue reading
Looking at Crimson Clover in Cover Crop Mix with Annual Ryegrass
Looking at Crimson Clover in Cover Crop Mix with Annual Ryegrass Crimson clover’s peak potential to fix Nitrogen is just before it blooms. It can fix the most nitrogen (up to 135b/ac) in the soil at that time. But … Continue reading
Annual Ryegrass Touted in SARE Cover Crop Videos
In a series of videos produced by Sustainable Ag Research & Education (SARE): called Cover Crop Innovators, Midwest farmers talk about their experience with annual ryegrass and other cover crops.Click here for the whole series: Or, click here to see … Continue reading
SARE Ties with DuPont-Pioneer on Cover Crops
In February, a select group of 300 cover crop experts gathered in Omaha to discuss the prospect of massively enlarging the number of cover crop acres in the Midwest. At present, there’s an estimated 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 acres of corn … Continue reading
Posted in Dan's Digs, Soil Quality
Tagged aerial seeding, aerial seeding of cover crops, Annual ryegrass, cover crops, erosion control, improve water infiltration, management of annual ryegrass, Mike Plumer, nitrogen scavenging cover crop, no-till agriculture, SARE, seeding cover crops, sequester nitrogen, weed suppression
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Dupont Pioneer Looks at Cover Crops – Annual Ryegrass
Managing Winter Cover Crops in Corn and Soybean Cropping Systems DuPont Pioneer Agronomy Research Summary – 2014 (Click here for full report) Table 1. Potential benefits of cover crops. Potential Benefit Description Retain Soil Nutrients Cover crops scavenge soil nutrients as … Continue reading
Annual Ryegrass at Commodity Classic – Feb 28
Annual ryegrass is among the most popular cover crops. As such, it will be among the key elements in a Cover Crop learning session at the Commodity Classic this year, in San Antonio, TX. The session will cover both the … Continue reading
Posted in Dan's Digs, General Information
Tagged aerial seeding, Annual ryegrass, Commodity Classic, cover crops, CTIC, erosion control, improve water infiltration, Karen Scanlon, management of annual ryegrass, Mike Plumer, nitrogen scavenging cover crop, no-till agriculture, Rob Myers, SARE, sequester nitrogen, USDA, weed suppression
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Cover Crop Veterans Increase Acreage of Annual Ryegrass in Midwest Corn and Beans
Nick Bowers looked at sales of cover crop seed from his Oregon farm this year and declared “we’re up from last year but the growth has leveled off a bit, compared to previous years.” “The good news of cover crops … Continue reading
Slake Test Demonstrates Cover Crop’s “Sponge” Qualities…and Bio-health
Ray Makenzie of Marcellus, Michigan, found himself with a thousand acres of highly erodible land when he switched from raising outdoor hogs to a confinement system in 1996. He went to no-till and foresees cover crops next year because of … Continue reading
ARG Cover Crop Seeded into 6-leaf Standing Corn!
In the cover crop revolution, there have been so many surprises…most have been pleasant…and yet, the surprises keep on coming. When we started, it was a slam dunk that a cover crop on winter fields would reduce erosion. That was, … Continue reading