Weed Control Remains a Primary Goal for Cover Crop Users
The numbers are in, and weed control remains one of farmers’ primary – and most successful – goals for adding cover crops...
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The Hunt to Learn How Much Herbicide is Intercepted by a Cover Crop
A thick stand of cover crops can help suppress weeds, but it can also intercept residual herbicides sprayed in the spring to...
Should You Adjust Cover Crop Seeding Rates as Planting Dates Change?
Cover crop seeding is often the last box to check in the fall for farmers, and planting windows don’t always cooperate. Is...
Planting Fall Covers? Know Your Herbicide Carryover Risks.
It’s fall cover crop seeding time, and with large swaths of the Midwest facing droughty soils, herbicide carryover injury could...
Farmer Forum Recap: Cover Crop Seeding
In GROW’s latest Farmer Forum, a panel of farmers from Delaware, New York and Texas shared their experiences with all aspects...
The Cover Crop That Never Dies: Scientists Explore Living Mulch
Imagine a cover crop that never stops growing — nestled between the rows of a cash crop, continuously suppressing weeds and...
Join a GROW Farmer Forum on Cover Crop Seeding
GROW will be hosting a Farmer Forum on July 18th, 2023, at 2 p.m. ET. The forum’s presenters will explore everything to do...
Farmer Case Study: Using Wheat as a Cover Crop & Managing Nitrogen Tie-Up
“We are in Palmer amaranth country down here,” as Cumberland, Virginia farmer Anthony Beery puts it. Beery, who grows row...
How Does Planting Green Affect Herbicide Use, Soil Moisture & More?
The practice of planting green into a living cover crop stand can be a great tool for suppressing weeds, but it comes with a lot...
