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Published Jan 29, 2019
And if you plan on seeding your cover crops after your crops are off, you have the added challenge of trying to get them seeded in a timely manner... It leads to the question: Is it ever too late to seed cover crops?The short answer: It depends... The General Manager of cover crop seed company Future Generation Ag explains that your weather conditions, location, the number of acres you have, the species of cash crop you’re coming from and going to, as well as equipment, all play a role in determining whether it’s too late to get your cover crops seeded. But the first factor to consider is when you want to benefit from that cover crop. “It’s never too late to plant cover crops, but if you wanted the benefit in the fall and early winter, then it’s too late,” he says...
Categories: Cover Crops
Middle Tennessee State University soil scientist Samuel Haruna analyzes a soil sample from his research fields to see how cover crops impact soil temperature. Photo provided by Samuel Haruna.
Updated Aug 17, 2020
One practice that can help fix that? Cover crops... Growing cover crops before the planting season is one way to help ensure that. How Cover Crops Stabilize Soil TemperatureTo understand how cover crops can buffer against rapid changes in soil temperature, we first need to understand what causes soil to warm up quickly... Because cover crops have the ability to improve soil moisture retention, break up compaction, and increase organic matter and carbon, Haruna theorized that it was a management practice that could help buffer rapid temperature changes... One was conducted with a three-way cover crop mix of hairy vetch, Austrian winter peas, and cereal rye on a no-till field in Missouri, while the other was conducted on a no-till field in Tennessee with just winter wheat...
Categories: Cover Crops
Experts warn that growing continuous peanuts or other legumes close in rotation to the peanut crop can have detrimental effects on peanuts — namely soilborne diseases. This includes leguminous cover crops. Photo by Jack Dykinga, USDA Agricultural Research Service
Published Aug 31, 2018
But what about using a legume cover crop? Can you include a legume like crimson clover in a cover crop mix that will be seeded on a field that includes peanuts in the rotation?The answer is a little more complicated than just yes or no. Avoid Legumes Before Peanuts; Use Grasses InsteadBalkcom believes the rule of avoiding legumes before peanuts also applies to legume cover crops, and points out that the typical intended purpose of growing a legume cover, doesn’t make sense for growing in front a peanut crop anyway. “When you plant a cover crop, what are you trying to get out of the cover crop?” he asks. “If we’re planting a legume cover crop, then more than likely we’re trying to produce some nitrogen that will hopefully lower the fertilizer requirements for the subsequent crop... So it really makes no sense to buy a legume cover crop that’s going to be more expensive than, say, your traditional grass cover crops...
Categories: Cover Crops, Peanuts
Published Jun 29, 2018
When it comes to cover crops and nutrient management, a lot of the focus is on what cover crops can do for soil fertility... But how should farmers adjust their fertilizer practices for their cash crops following cover crops? John Pike, a contract researcher and cover crop specialist for the Zea Maize Foundation and IL Sustainable Agriculture Partnership, and a former Research Agronomist at the University of Illinois at Dixon Springs Research station, says that while there are some nuances that need to be planned for, the basic principles of soil fertility and crop management are much the same. “It’s a matter of fine-tuning the cover crop system to fit the soils, climate and equipment that’s available in the operation that we’re talking about on any given day,” he says... ”Nitrogen timing is criticalFarmers first need to consider the benefits of the cover crops they’re seeding and how they may affect their fertilizer plans... But when that nitrogen is available to the following crop is highly dependant on the timing of the cover crop termination...
Categories: Cover Crops
By Pat Rogers
Published Jan 24, 2018
In the past few years, we have made a concerted effort to increase the usage of cover crops and other conservation practices on our farm... The cornerstone of any good crop production system involving conservation techniques is the establishment of cover crops. Cover crops have traditionally been thought of as a defensive measure... But while the defensive qualities of cover crops are certainly great, what excites me the most about cover crops is actually their ability to enhance crop yields, especially in years where weather conditions are already favorable. Cover crops’ ability to take a good crop yield and make it great can be explained by considering the framework of something known as Liebig’s Law of Minimum, which can be summarized as “If one of the critical nutrients or soil conditions is deficient, plant growth will be limited even if all other critical nutrients and soil conditions are abundant...
Categories: Cover Crops
Published Jun 15, 2018
By adding cover crops to the mix, you’re diversifying your rotation even more. But have you thought about rotating your cover crops? Should you be using the same cover crop species back to back, year after year?Dave Robison, who runs the blog PlantCoverCrops... Avoiding clubroot with rotationRobison warns that if you continually utilize brassicas in your cover crop mix, you need to consider doing some level of rotation... While this can result in an unhealthy cover crop, for farmers who grow brassicas as a cash crop — especially canola — the disease can be detrimental... ”Michigan State University Extension advises not planting oilseed radish as a cover crop on the same field for more than two years in a row, and avoiding it when growing cabbage, broccoli or radish for cash crops because of its susceptibility to the disease...
Categories: Cover Crops
Published Apr 15
Today marks the start of our 31 Days of Cover Crops Photo Contest! This is our fifth year of hosting the contest, which is a fun way for AgFuse community members throughout the world to share your favorite cover crop photos... To enter our 31 Days of Cover Crops Photo Contest, simply take a photograph of cover crops and post your image in the Cover Crops group on AgFuse... Step #1: Make sure you’re following the Cover Crops group. Using a web browser or the AgFuse app, simply visit the Cover Crops group profile page and tap the “Follow” button. Step #2: When creating your Quick Post, make sure the “Viewable By” field has been set to “Group Members” and then “Cover Crops...
Categories: Cover Crops
Published Jul 18, 2019
Instead, it provides a great opportunity to seed cover crops. Why Cover Crop Prevented Plant Acres?“If you have livestock, it’s a total no-brainer,” says Sarah Carlson, Strategic Initiatives Director for Practical Farmers of Iowa, explaining that sorghum-sudangrass or Japanese millet would provide livestock farmers access to a lot of forage for the summer and reduce their feedstock expenses. The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) is also allowing farmers to hay, graze or chop cover crops on prevented plant acres earlier this year, with final grazing and haying being moved from Nov... According to the press release, growers can hay, graze, or cut cover crops for silage, haylage or baleage on prevented plant acres on or after Sept... If you have livestock, growing a cover crop on prevented plant acres will give you summer forage and reduce feed expenses, says Sarah Carlson...
Categories: Cover Crops
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A group where farmers in Marlboro County, SC can provide crop scouting updates to each other.
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Here’s a place to spread the word concerning announcements and insights that the whole ag industry may be interested in.
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Go Unmanned sells drones, drone training, and drone services across the East Coast. Drones already have been used in Precision Agriculture, forestry,horticulture,greenhouses, vineyards,and livestock.
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Published Jan 29, 2019
And if you plan on seeding your cover crops after your crops are off, you have the added challenge of trying to get them seeded in a timely manner... It leads to the question: Is it ever too late to seed cover crops?The short answer: It depends... The General Manager of cover crop seed company Future Generation Ag explains that your weather conditions, location, the number of acres you have, the species of cash crop you’re coming from and going to, as well as equipment, all play a role in determining whether it’s too late to get your cover crops seeded. But the first factor to consider is when you want to benefit from that cover crop. “It’s never too late to plant cover crops, but if you wanted the benefit in the fall and early winter, then it’s too late,” he says...
Categories: Cover Crops
Middle Tennessee State University soil scientist Samuel Haruna analyzes a soil sample from his research fields to see how cover crops impact soil temperature. Photo provided by Samuel Haruna.
Updated Aug 17, 2020
One practice that can help fix that? Cover crops... Growing cover crops before the planting season is one way to help ensure that. How Cover Crops Stabilize Soil TemperatureTo understand how cover crops can buffer against rapid changes in soil temperature, we first need to understand what causes soil to warm up quickly... Because cover crops have the ability to improve soil moisture retention, break up compaction, and increase organic matter and carbon, Haruna theorized that it was a management practice that could help buffer rapid temperature changes... One was conducted with a three-way cover crop mix of hairy vetch, Austrian winter peas, and cereal rye on a no-till field in Missouri, while the other was conducted on a no-till field in Tennessee with just winter wheat...
Categories: Cover Crops
Experts warn that growing continuous peanuts or other legumes close in rotation to the peanut crop can have detrimental effects on peanuts — namely soilborne diseases. This includes leguminous cover crops. Photo by Jack Dykinga, USDA Agricultural Research Service
Published Aug 31, 2018
But what about using a legume cover crop? Can you include a legume like crimson clover in a cover crop mix that will be seeded on a field that includes peanuts in the rotation?The answer is a little more complicated than just yes or no. Avoid Legumes Before Peanuts; Use Grasses InsteadBalkcom believes the rule of avoiding legumes before peanuts also applies to legume cover crops, and points out that the typical intended purpose of growing a legume cover, doesn’t make sense for growing in front a peanut crop anyway. “When you plant a cover crop, what are you trying to get out of the cover crop?” he asks. “If we’re planting a legume cover crop, then more than likely we’re trying to produce some nitrogen that will hopefully lower the fertilizer requirements for the subsequent crop... So it really makes no sense to buy a legume cover crop that’s going to be more expensive than, say, your traditional grass cover crops...
Categories: Cover Crops, Peanuts
Published Jun 29, 2018
When it comes to cover crops and nutrient management, a lot of the focus is on what cover crops can do for soil fertility... But how should farmers adjust their fertilizer practices for their cash crops following cover crops? John Pike, a contract researcher and cover crop specialist for the Zea Maize Foundation and IL Sustainable Agriculture Partnership, and a former Research Agronomist at the University of Illinois at Dixon Springs Research station, says that while there are some nuances that need to be planned for, the basic principles of soil fertility and crop management are much the same. “It’s a matter of fine-tuning the cover crop system to fit the soils, climate and equipment that’s available in the operation that we’re talking about on any given day,” he says... ”Nitrogen timing is criticalFarmers first need to consider the benefits of the cover crops they’re seeding and how they may affect their fertilizer plans... But when that nitrogen is available to the following crop is highly dependant on the timing of the cover crop termination...
Categories: Cover Crops
By Pat Rogers
Published Jan 24, 2018
In the past few years, we have made a concerted effort to increase the usage of cover crops and other conservation practices on our farm... The cornerstone of any good crop production system involving conservation techniques is the establishment of cover crops. Cover crops have traditionally been thought of as a defensive measure... But while the defensive qualities of cover crops are certainly great, what excites me the most about cover crops is actually their ability to enhance crop yields, especially in years where weather conditions are already favorable. Cover crops’ ability to take a good crop yield and make it great can be explained by considering the framework of something known as Liebig’s Law of Minimum, which can be summarized as “If one of the critical nutrients or soil conditions is deficient, plant growth will be limited even if all other critical nutrients and soil conditions are abundant...
Categories: Cover Crops
Published Jun 15, 2018
By adding cover crops to the mix, you’re diversifying your rotation even more. But have you thought about rotating your cover crops? Should you be using the same cover crop species back to back, year after year?Dave Robison, who runs the blog PlantCoverCrops... Avoiding clubroot with rotationRobison warns that if you continually utilize brassicas in your cover crop mix, you need to consider doing some level of rotation... While this can result in an unhealthy cover crop, for farmers who grow brassicas as a cash crop — especially canola — the disease can be detrimental... ”Michigan State University Extension advises not planting oilseed radish as a cover crop on the same field for more than two years in a row, and avoiding it when growing cabbage, broccoli or radish for cash crops because of its susceptibility to the disease...
Categories: Cover Crops
Published Apr 15
Today marks the start of our 31 Days of Cover Crops Photo Contest! This is our fifth year of hosting the contest, which is a fun way for AgFuse community members throughout the world to share your favorite cover crop photos... To enter our 31 Days of Cover Crops Photo Contest, simply take a photograph of cover crops and post your image in the Cover Crops group on AgFuse... Step #1: Make sure you’re following the Cover Crops group. Using a web browser or the AgFuse app, simply visit the Cover Crops group profile page and tap the “Follow” button. Step #2: When creating your Quick Post, make sure the “Viewable By” field has been set to “Group Members” and then “Cover Crops...
Categories: Cover Crops
Published Jul 18, 2019
Instead, it provides a great opportunity to seed cover crops. Why Cover Crop Prevented Plant Acres?“If you have livestock, it’s a total no-brainer,” says Sarah Carlson, Strategic Initiatives Director for Practical Farmers of Iowa, explaining that sorghum-sudangrass or Japanese millet would provide livestock farmers access to a lot of forage for the summer and reduce their feedstock expenses. The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) is also allowing farmers to hay, graze or chop cover crops on prevented plant acres earlier this year, with final grazing and haying being moved from Nov... According to the press release, growers can hay, graze, or cut cover crops for silage, haylage or baleage on prevented plant acres on or after Sept... If you have livestock, growing a cover crop on prevented plant acres will give you summer forage and reduce feed expenses, says Sarah Carlson...
Categories: Cover Crops
Published May 17
Our fifth year of hosting the 31 Days of Cover Crops Photo Contest has come to a close... Diane Kovach Posted on AgFuse Jennie Schmidt Posted on AgFuse My father in law on a HiBoy interseeder, planting #covercrops into #notill corn. Circa 1965 #EasternShore #Maryland #Farm365 #31DaysOfCoverCrops Kelly Griggs Posted on AgFuse Planting green... Jennie Schmidt Posted on AgFuse My father in law on a HiBoy interseeder, planting #covercrops into #notill corn. Circa 1965 #EasternShore #Maryland #Farm365 #31DaysOfCoverCrops Kelly Griggs Posted on AgFuse Planting green...
Categories: Cover Crops
Published May 17, 2019
The 2019 edition of our “31 Days of Cover Crops Photo Contest” has ended. We received many great entries and want to thank everyone for their participation... Kevin Elmy Posted on AgFuse Aneya Taylor Posted on AgFuse cover crops from Dittmar Family Farms in Felton, DE USA The second-place winner, who will receive a $100 gift card to Amazon, is Kevin Elmy from Bredenbury, Saskatchewan. Kevin Elmy Posted on AgFuse Aneya Taylor Posted on AgFuse cover crops from Dittmar Family Farms in Felton, DE USA The third-place winner, who will receive a $50 gift card to Amazon, is Aneya Taylor from Felton, Delaware. Aneya Taylor Posted on AgFuse cover crops from Dittmar Family Farms in Felton, DE USA Thanks again to everyone for being part of the fun...
Categories: Cover Crops
By Anonymous Member
Published Feb 15
What cover crops did farmers use prior to inorganic forms of fertilizer becoming popular?
Categories: Fertility, Cover Crops, NRCS
By Anonymous Member
Published Mar 26, 2020
Categories: Cover Crops
By Pat Rogers
Published May 30, 2020
Categories: Cover Crops
By Anonymous Member
Published Feb 25
Do you plant green? If so, what termination methods/timing do you use? For example, a burndown before planting the cash crop? Roller-crimping after planting? Etc. Thanks!
Categories: Cover Crops
By Anonymous Member
Published Jul 16
Categories: Cover Crops
By Pat Rogers
Published Feb 15
Categories: Crop Scouting, Precision Agriculture
By Anonymous Member
Published Apr 8, 2020
Is there a lot of benefit to letting cover crops grow a tremendous amount of vegetation prior to terminating them or do the risks of increased planting difficulty make it not worth the trouble?
Categories: Corn, Cotton, Cover Crops
By Pat Rogers
Published Apr 7
If you are using a cover crop roller prior to planting, should you burn down before or after rolling the cover crops?
Categories: Tools, Cover Crops, NRCS
Published Oct 18, 2020
Looking at planting triticale with hairy vetch and cow peas for a cover crop next year for a cash crop or corn to be planted late May 2021 using a roller crimper to terminate the cover crop before plant. It’s October 18th, I won’t be able to plant until the 22nd. Night time temps have fluctuated from mid 30s to high 20s no consistency yet. Some nights stay closer to 40. Highs are in the 70s and 80s. Am I too late for any of my covers? Any suggestions on planting rates? Will triticale terminate properly if I follow the method used for Rye, waiting until the entire field is dropping pollen?
Categories: Organic Specialty Crops, Cover Crops
By Jerry Smith
Published Mar 10, 2020
Categories: Cotton, Peanuts, Cover Crops
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