Cover Crops

Jack Zemlicka
From The Desk of Jack Zemlicka

Seeding Cover Crops with Your Strip-Till Rig?

Finding the right mix and method for incorporating cover crops into a strip-till system is a work in progress for many farmers. Some have figured out a successful blend, while others have abandoned cover crops entirely in search of other alternatives to preserve nutrients and soil moisture.
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Strip-Till Boosts Corn Yields, Stymies Slugs at the Same Time

The Cornelissen farm in Watford, Ontario is leveraging strip-till and cover crops to fight slugs, dry out soils and realize a yield advantage.
Many farmers who convert to strip-till from a conventional-tillage system often laud the benefits of improved soil structure and savings on fuel and labor. For Michael, Kyle and George Cornelissen, who have 28 years of no-tilling behind them, they adopted strip-till for entirely different reasons.
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Managing Your Cash Crop to Make Room To Cover Crop Effectively [Webinar]

Adding a cover crop into your cash crop rotation needs to be a well-thought-out process. Walton, Ind., no-tiller and veteran cover crop user Cameron Mills takes you through the primary things you need to consider to have a good experience making cover crops a beneficial part of your no-till system. [To view any of our webinar replays, you must be logged in with a free user account.]
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Benefits and Pitfalls of Adding Cover Crops in Strip-Till

Iowa strip-tiller Frank Moore shares a creative approach to selecting and seeding cover crops to combat erosion on his 2,000 acre farm.
Frank Moore believes a little trial and error on his farm can go long way, and that led him to switch over to strip-tilling corn and introducing cover crops on his 2,000 acre farm near Cresco in northern Iowa.
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