Learn effective strategies for repairing drought-damaged pastures including fall planting of cereal rye, mulching, and spring ...

After a winter full of great discussions, it's clear there are a lot of farmers with cereal in their fields who will be managing that cover crop this spring. So, here are a few pointers to make sure ...

While most crops shut down for winter, this tough cold-season cover crop keeps digging deep and improving the ground until spring warmth returns.

Cereal rye as a cover crop may reduce waterhemp populations without yield loss in soybean, according to a three-year study at the University of Missouri. MU Extension weed specialist Mandy Bish and a ...

I am often asked this question: "Is using only cereal rye as a cover crop enough or do I need more diversity?" My answer is, "It depends on what you are trying to do with that cover crop." One goal of ...

In a recent Buckeye Dairy News article, The Ohio State University’s Jason Hartschuh detailed some of the differences his ...

With cool weather conditions potentially causing delays in cover crop termination, what options are available? Cereal rye ahead of soybean is not nearly as problematic. While planting green may not be ...

Between spring thaw and soybean planting, the risk of soil nitrogen loss is great. As soil temperatures warm, soil microbes become active and start decomposing organic matter. Nitrogen released during ...

Most fall-planted cover crops will have higher growth than last year, even though 2018 corn and soybean harvests extended a few weeks longer than normal. Among the mix of cover crops selected, cereal ...

Fall-planted cover crops are often used as part of an integrated weed control program in herbicide-resistant soybean crops. But researchers writing in the journal Weed Technology say not all cover ...

Cover crops are being increasingly recommended as an integrated approach to controlling glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth and other troublesome weeds. Thus, a field experiment was conducted in 2010 ...

When Don Morse began growing cover crops, one of his main goals was to tackle the growing populations of marestail (horseweed) and waterhemp that defied traditional control measures. “I can give you a ...