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. ...
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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...
How to Sample Cover Crop Biomass
What are you getting out of your cover crop? Knowing how much of each cover crop species is growing in your field is the first...
Planting Green: Do Higher Cover Crop Seeding Rates Improve Weed Suppression?
The idea that increasing cover crop seeding rates will increase the cover crop’s biomass and weed suppressive benefits is a...
Four Takeaways on Cover Crops and Weed Control from WSSA
Using cover crops for weed suppression can be complicated, so it’s little surprise that the past decade’s worth of research...
A Deep Dive Into Mapping Fields with High Speed Cameras
Have a field brimming with thousands of weeds or cover crops and no idea what all is out there? Søren Skovsen is working...
Mapping Tools Offer Farmers a Big Picture View of Crop Management
When moving through a field row by row, weed by weed, it can be hard for farmers to see the big picture. Researchers from GROW...
Explore How Planting Green Affects Crop Insects and Disease
Planting green can be a risky business. The practice of planting cash crops into green, living cover crops is gaining popularity,...