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Tag Archives: nitrogen scavenging cover crop
Annual Ryegrass Seed Sources
Annual ryegrass is a tool for improving soil health and increasing crop yield. In fact, annual ryegrass is like the durable Leatherman tool – just one application to fix a lot of problems. Annual ryegrass puts an end to erosion … Continue reading
Making a Nitrogen Bank Account with Ryegrass as a Cover Crop
Here’s how Eileen Kladivco put it: Even with well-managed corn and soybean production, there is always some leaching of nitrate that originates either from residual fertilizer N or from the natural decomposition of soil organic matter. Our annual cropping systems are … Continue reading
How Hardy is Annual Ryegrass as a Cover Crop?
In the chart below, you can see color-coded bands that pertain to climatic zones. In the accompanying guide to growing ideal cover crops, the Pioneer and DuPont agronomists determined that annual ryegrass was not recommended for use above Indiana, except … Continue reading
Annual Ryegrass Video Series – for beginners and intermediate cover crop users
The experts said it back in 1998, that no-till and cover crops were a winning combination for corn and soybean growers. Ten years later, a series of videos were done to introduce the idea and bring basic understanding of the … Continue reading
Annual Ryegrass Has Important Benefits
Farm Progress published a management guide for growing cover crops…it’s available FREE online. Click here. (You will be asked to fill out the information they want – name, email address – before emailing it to you free.) Here’s part of what the … Continue reading
Posted in General Information, Soil Quality
Tagged aerial seeding of cover crops, Annual ryegrass, cover crops, deep rooting, management of annual ryegrass, nitrogen scavenging cover crop, no-till agriculture, seeding cover crops, sequester nitrogen, soybean cyst nematode suppression
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New Midwest Incentives for Cover Crops
Among other things, Dan Towery manages the Indiana part of the Soil Health Partnership, a network of innovative farmers in eight Midwest states. Dan has been a consultant for the Oregon Grass Seed Growers Commission that promotes use of annual … Continue reading
Cover Crops in the Midwest Saves Lives in the Gulf
Agricultural runoff has dramatically altered life in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Hypoxia, in essence the cutting off of oxygen, has choked off aquatic life in the Gulf. Continued practices will essentially kill off life, and the … Continue reading
Mike Plumer – Granddaddy of Modern-day Cover Crop Advocacy
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, before we had met Mike Plumer, he already had more than a decade of advocacy and research into no-till farming and cover crops, especially annual ryegrass. At the time, Mike was an … Continue reading
Interseeding Webinar – Seeding Annual Ryegrass and other Cover Crops in the Spring
This spring, the University of Pennsylvania conduced a webinar on the subject of interseeding. As you may have read here in past blog posts, interseeding is done in the late spring, when corn and beans are sufficiently established (v 6 … Continue reading
Commodity Prices Tied to Cover Crop Usage?
Corn prices having fallen from $8/bu to about $3.50 has impacted farmers use of cover crops, at least some of them, according to Nick Bowers, a grass seed grower in Oregon (http://kbseedsolutions.com/) Those new to cover crops are the ones … Continue reading