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2020 National Cover Crop Summit: Fall Edition

Fall Cover Crop Summit Will Energize Your Cover Crop Plans

Experienced growers and industry experts to share their best seeding strategies, grazing and feeding tips, variety selection secrets and more at the National Cover Crop Summit: Fall 2020 Edition, Nov. 17-18.
October 14, 2020 | Posted in Cover Crops
Due to popular demand, the editors of Cover Crop Strategies are pleased to present a fall edition of the National Cover Crop Summit. This free, 2-day virtual event on Nov. 17-18 will feature 6 sessions sharing ideas, tips and information from crop industry experts and growers who have experience using cover crops to maximize economic and soil-health building benefits.
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2020 National Cover Crop Summit: Fall Edition

Improving Soil Health Through Diverse Crop Rotations Including Covers

Cronin Farms agronomy manager, Dan Forgey, discusses integrating cover crops into crop rotations during the online National Cover Crop Summit: Fall 2020 Edition.
October 14, 2020 | Posted in Cover Crops, Soil Health
Diversifying crop rotations can offer significant positive results, improving soil health and boosting biological activity and nutrient cycling. Cronin Farms, a no-till operation based near Gettysburg, S.D., has crop rotations down to a science, including forages and cover crops.
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2020 National Cover Crop Summit: Fall Edition

Aerial Seeding Can Be an Effective Cover Crop Seeding Method

A Wisconsin farmer and Certified Crop Advisor speaks during the online National Cover Crop Summit: Fall 2020 Edition about why aerial seeding can work for growers.
October 9, 2020 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Cover Crops
Harvest season is a busy time. There is so much for a grower to organize, manage and stay on top of that adding one more thing during the season — like seeding cover crops — may seem way too daunting.
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2020 National Cover Crop Summit: Fall Edition

It’s Not Too Late for Frost Seeding

The online National Cover Crop Summit: Fall 2020 Edition kicks off with a presentation on tricks to help with frost seeding by a Penn State University professor of soil management.
October 7, 2020 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Cover Crops
Although many growers may consider the “ideal” time to plant cover crops to be immediately after harvest, having snow on the ground is not a reason to give up on utilizing the benefits cover crops can offer. This is where frost seeding comes into play as a cover crop seeding method.
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[Podcast] Learning by Doing with Strip-Till: Visiting with Jon Stevens, Maple Grove Farms

In this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Agrisolutions, we learn about some of the on-farm experiments being conducted in southeastern Minnesota to build soil health and improve farm profitability.
September 17, 2020 | Posted in Cover Crops, Equipment
In this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Agrisolutions, executive editor Julia Gerlach interviews Minnesota strip-tiller Jon Stevens during a visit to his Maple Creek Farms operation, where he talks about his transition into strip-till and re-introduction of cattle back onto the farm.
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[Podcast] An Economic Mindset to Building a Bankable Strip-Till System

In this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Agrisolutions, we share excerpts from my on-farm visit with Greg Entinger, the New Prague, Minn., farmer who shares his economic-based strategy for managing his 900-acre strip-tilled corn and no-tilled soybean operation.
September 2, 2020 | Posted in Cover Crops, Soil Health
In this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Agrisolutions, we share excerpts from my on-farm visit with Greg Entinger, from New Prague, Minn., who shares his economic-based strategy for managing his 900-acre strip-tilled corn and no-tilled soybean operation.
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