Annual ryegrass was featured in a cover story in this week’s Indiana Prairie Farmer. The story was essentially about the new Indiana Cover Cropping Systems Initiative, a three year project funded by the following partners:
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
Indiana State Dept. of Ag
Indiana Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts
The project - which grew out [...]
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The late harvest, combined with a wet fall, has made conventional tillage more difficult. Those risking tillage would probably add to compaction issues. But late harvest has also hampered planting cover crops this year. Here are a couple of things to consider, either for later this year or next summer.
1. Dormant seeding of annual ryegrass [...]
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I’m working with a videographer in Indianapolis today, getting footage of a final segment for the new DVD for those interested in growing annual ryegrass as a cover crop.
This is basically an update of a DVD we did a couple of years ago, and it will still contain lots of good, basic info about how [...]
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The Virginia SWCD encourages plating cover crops as a means of capturing valuable nitrogen still present in crop stubble after harvest.
Cover crop payments in excess of $25 per acre are paid to farmers demonstrating a willingness to engage in this practice. They have a graduated, or incremental, payment plan based on what cover crop is [...]
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