I noticed these recent posts on No-Till Farmer’s website - growers recognizing the value of cover crops to prevent erosion. Note that in the second case, he’s using cover crops on waterways, as well as on crop lands.
Dan Gillespie is a no-tiller at Meadow Grove, Neb., and state NRCS no-till specialist. At this time, [...]
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A grower from Kentucky wrote recently about his use of annual ryegrass as a cover crop:
I think one of the keys to winter survival of Ryegrass is to NOT put nitrogen on it in the fall. Nitrogen causes a plant to take on a lot of water. What happens when water freezes? It expands and [...]
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Some weeks ago, the West Coast ag magazine Capital Press posted this article about Oregon-grown annual ryegrass and a new partner in Midwest cover crop acreage: crimson clover:
Capital Press, Salem, Oregon (by Mitch Lies)
They aren’t synonymous with salt and pepper, but apparently annual ryegrass and crimson clover are combining to provide good benefits to Midwest [...]
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Roger Wenning, a Greensburg, IN farmer and cover crop advocate recently held a field day to measure root depth of annual ryegrass planted as a cover crop at various dates last fall and winter.
Wenning is one of 40 or so “Innovators” featured in a report by Dr. Joel Gruver, Western Illinois University professor. That report is available on [...]
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This post came from “Go Green Toolshed,” a blog on the virtues and mechanics of organic farming. It seemed particularly on target with this segment talking about benefits of no-till farming and its relationship to the carbon dioxide cycle:
The land-based carbon cycle works as plants take CO2 out of the atmosphere and convert it to [...]
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Jamie and Jim Scott, of J.A. Scott Farms in Pierceton, IN, have been recognized as innovators and it has paid off in soil health, crop productivity and new business for them. (The American Soybean Association, in 2008, awarded them the Conservationist of the Year for their use of no-till with cover crops and a variety [...]
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