Cover Crops

Learn how you can use cover crops to slow erosion, boost soil health, scavenge and hold nutrients, improve water quality, and control pests, weeds, and diseases. This section outlines the different types of cover crops as well as management tips for planting and terminating.

Using cover crops to control weeds

On Weeds Playbook, Gil Gullickson talks to a Field Agronomist about the practice of using cover crops for weed control.

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Cashing in on cover crops

Haying, grazing turn a profit when harvested for livestock.

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Level Up Your Cover Crops

Whether you’re just getting started or you’ve been cover cropping for years, “leveling up” your cover crops strategy in 2021 can help build resilience in the face of constant uncertainties.

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Successful Marketing

What a year!

By Successful Marketing

What a year it has been, and many are grateful 2020 is behind us. Yet, while the calendar year may have changed, the marketing year is far from over.

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Machinery Insider

Expanding planter lines

By Machinery Insider

AGCO introduces an entirely new planter line while Case IH expands existing planter configurations.

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Top Shops

3 can-do farm shops

By Top Shops

Innovative structural changes and additions improve working conditions on 3 Midwestern farms.

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How to be a profitable hippie farmer

Reed Suelflow has a passion for soil health, rotational grazing, and cover crops. “It may seem a little weird to some people. I’m OK with that.”

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It pays to be an unconventional rancher

Cover crops give Barry and Eli Little more options for grazing cattle and cutting costs.

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South Dakota soil health farmers reap 2020 benefits on 2019 prevent plant acres

Soil health practices help 2020 South Dakota fields hold up in wet conditions.

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New Cover Crop Information Map centralizes research and farm trial data

The Cover Crop Information Map makes research and farm trial data available for farmers considering cover crops.

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Agronomy Tip: Manage Compaction and Weed Pressure

After a cold, wet year, compaction and weed pressure will be challenging to manage.

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Terminating cover crops

Cover crops that don't winterkill will need some sort of management in the spring before the cash crop can be planted. And, some cover crops left to their own devices will get out of control. Listen in as Successful Farming's Megan Vollstedt talks termination with a cover crop grower and an extension specialist.