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Keep Covers in Your Rotation Without Breaking the Bank

No-tillers can reduce the cost of their cover-crop program and still keep most of the benefits by closely examining their seeding rates and methods and potentially trimming back mixes.
By Martha Mintz posted on April 17, 2015 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Seeding & Planting, Cover Crops, Equipment, Soil Health
With corn prices looking a little more bear than bull these days, many no-tillers may be looking for places to trim their input costs. Fair or unfair, the newest management darling of no-tillers — cover crops — may find themselves in the crosshairs.
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[Webinar] Managing Your Cash Crop to Make Room To Cover Crop Effectively

April 7, 2015 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Cover Crops
Adding a cover crop into your cash crop rotation needs to be a well-thought-out process. Walton, Ind., no-tiller and veteran cover crop user Cameron Mills takes you through the primary things you need to consider to have a good experience making cover crops a beneficial part of your no-till system. [To view any of our webinar replays, you must be logged in with a free user account.]
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Mixed Bag For Latest Cover Crop Study

By John Dobberstein posted on March 26, 2015 | Posted in Cover Crops
The latest study about the use of cover crops on the Great Plains has been released, this time focusing on Nebraska. And while the news about their impact on yields and soil-moisture use is mixed at best, that’s only part of the story.
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30 Years of No-Tilling Yields Healthier Soils, Better Planting

Marshall Alford's decades-long experiences with cover crops and no-till corn and soybeans have helped him protect and preserve the soil, improve crop emergence and boost his fertility program.
By Laura Barrera posted on March 20, 2015 | Posted in Cover Crops, Equipment, Soil Health
Marshall Alford's decades-long experiences with cover crops and no-till corn and soybeans have helped him protect and preserve the soil, improve crop emergence and boost his fertility program.
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Cover Cropping 2,500 Acres

By Laura Barrera posted on March 17, 2015 | Posted in Cover Crops
Tom Gasper of North Vernon, Ind., talks about the benefits his family's no-till operation is seeing from using cover crops on more than 2,000 acres, the species they’re using and why they decided to have their covers aerially seeded.
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Farmers Forum: Using Soybeans as a Cover Crop

March 12, 2015 | Posted in Cover Crops
A no-tiller planted soybeans after wheat as a cover crop and had a dry matter analysis done before the first frost. Based on the results and his soil samples, he doesn’t plan on using fertilizers on this year’s corn crop. He’s wondering if this is going to work well.
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