Discover ways Iowa farmers are using cover crops to reduce erosion, manage nutrients, and improve soil health.
Cover Crops: Farmer Perspectives – Why grow cover crops?
Cropping System: Soybean
Innovative Cropping Systems Virtual Field Day – Relay Cropping
Tim Boring discusses relay cropping small grains with soybean.
Innovative Cropping Systems Virtual Field Day – Planting Cover Crop Mix
Tim Boring discusses inter-seeded cover crops into corn.
Innovative Cropping Systems Virtual Field Day – Hasenick Brothers Farm
Footage from our live Cropping System Resilience Virtual Field Day with Drew Hasenick, on July 31 at 9am EST. Drew Hasenick shares information about his family farm and their innovative practices to improve soil health and resilience.
How long to wait to spray cover crops after low nighttime temps.
When temperatures dip, you may need to wait a few days for cover crops to be actively growing again before you spray. In this clip from a 25 May 2020 Farmer2Farmer virtual meeting, Pierceton, IN farmer Jamie Scott discusses the importance of ensuring cover crops like annual rye grass and wheat are actively growing for […]
Virtual Shop Visit: Plan A (B, C, and D) for Planting Green with Carter Morgan
Ask just about any farm who “plants green” – planting a commodity crop into a living cover – and they will tell you their first foray was not planned, Mother Nature made the decision for them. For anyone using cover crops, a plan to deal with covers that “get away” is imperative. Carter Morgan provides […]
Virtual Shop Visit: Planter Modifications with AJ Adkins
AJ Adkins, NTM Ag Equipment, broadcasts live from a Brownsburg, IN farm shop and reviews planter modification options from front of a row unit to the back – trash wheels and coulters to closing wheels and down pressure.
25 Years of Success With No-Till and Cover Crops!
Come along as Myron Sylling shares his journey into soil health, including 25 plus years of no-till along with cover cropping six years on all of their 1,400 acres.
Conservation Pays: Farmer Rick Juchems with his daughter Liz
A conservation advocate, Rick Juchems farms in northeast Iowa and has implemented numerous conservation practices including cover crops. His daughter Liz is following in his footsteps — not in farming, but in conservation education and outreach.
What’s in this field? Pollinator planting on crop land
Bill Sylla discusses the how and why he decided to restore a pollinator prairie on a crop field in Trempealeau County. Bill will discuss the difficulty he had planting & harvesting corn and soybeans and the challenges and successes he found from restoring the site to native species.