Plant & Soil: Soybean Management Strategies to Facilitate Timely Winter Wheat Establishment
Winter wheat acres across WI have declined over the past few years due to high corn and soybean prices and late grain harvests. As [...]
Agronomy: Termination Covers: Killing Annual Ryegrass can be like Trap Shooting
Properly terminating a cover crop in the spring is as important as properly establishing a cover crop in the fall. Annual ryegrass seems to [...]
Agronomy: Spring-Planted Cover Crops
There is a lot of interest in planting cover crops. Obviously, the best time to plant them is after wheat, vegetables or silage because [...]
Agronomy: Free Cover Crops 101 Video Series Available on YouTube
The Illinois Council on Best Management Practices (C-BMP) has introduced a series of four videos to help answer common questions about working with cover [...]
Agronomics: Don’t Let Lower Commodity Prices Sway Conservation and Soil Health
I recently have been pondering how the use of cover crops and other conservation practices on Illinois farms is likely to be impacted by [...]
Agronomics: Cover Crops: Imitating Life on the Prairie
Adding cover crops to their crop rotation can help growers improve their soil health, explained David Hammer, Ph.D., professor of Soil Genesis, University of [...]
Agronomy: Terminating Cover Crops
This article originally appeared on Iowa State University’s Integrated Crop Management News and has been reposted with permission. There is an increased interest in the use [...]
Agronomy: Fire Up Soil Quality With Cover Crops
Recent studies show how cover crops benefit soil health, water quality and farmer profits, helping to fuel a renewed interest in using cover crops, [...]
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