In states like Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Indiana, adoption of cover crops has spread like good news, but in other states, cover crop adoption is slow, even stunted.
Using cereal rye and wheat as cover crops increased the yields of strip-tilled cotton vs. using the same cover crops with conventional tillage, according to recent research by the University of Georgia.
Producers should make field repairs as needed and seed a cover crop to help protect the soil and start rebuilding soil life before the 2012 cropping season.
Using forage radishes and field peas for bio strip-till produced the fifth and sixth-highest corn yields of 53 test plots in 2010 at the Conservation Systems Cropping Project, a no-till demonstration farm near Forman, N.D., says farm manager Kelly Cooper.
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