Farmers, ranchers, crop advisors, horticulturists and others will have the opportunity to see cutting-edge agricultural ...

Cover crops can be interseeded into planted row crops, providing grazing later in the fall/winter for cattle. Photo credit: Connor Biehler Cover crop inter-seeding refers to the practice of planting a ...

As the crimper rolls through a cover crop, the blunt blade “crimps” or injures plant stems every 7 inches, crushing the xylem and phloem so the plant dies. The blades are usually positioned at a 7-100 ...

The cover crop produced a “great cutting” of hay, Elway said, which will help ensure he doesn’t have to pay $300 or more per ton for hay next winter. The area will soon be grazed by cow/calf pairs ...

Farmers grow cover crops for a variety of production and soil health benefits that do not include the sale or direct use of the crop. This distinguishes cover crops from both cash crops, which are ...

Photo 4. The rye cover crop in the basic cover crop treatment before cover crop termination, which occurred in late April 2020. All of the cover crop treatments reduced weed biomass when compared to ...

Take berseem clover, for example. The synergistic relationship between berseem clover and alfalfa make the legume an effective companion crop due to its rapid summer growth, notable nitrogen fixation ...

Preferably during periods of no snow cover, seed is broadcasted onto the frozen surface of the soil. As soil follows a freezing and thawing cycle, seed will work into the top 0.25 inches of soil.

One livestock operation in southern Ohio is using a versatile cover crop that benefits them multiple, more immediate, ways. Bolender Farms in Brown County, an Angus operation, has started to see some ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The drought has left feed for livestock in short supply, and many producers are considering planting cover crops this fall that may also be grazed or cut for hay.