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Cover Crops

Market Journal

March 2, 2018

Market Journal Looks at Farm Bill Discussions

Figure 1. Rye cover crop planted in small sections of field for erosion control. Center photo shows a section of ground where cover crop did not establish with normally developing plants. Damaged corn plants were primarily restricted to areas where cover crop was present.

March 8, 2018

Wheat Stem Maggot in Corn: Plan on Scouting Your Cover Crop Fields This Spring

By Justin McMechan - Crop Protection and Cropping Systems Specialist, Robert Wright - Extension Entomologist, Gabriela Inveninato Carmona - Entomology Graduate Student

Soybean seedlings in no-till field

March 29, 2018

Building Resilient Soil Systems using Residue, No-till, and Cover Crops

By Paul Jasa - Former Extension Engineer, Retired

Manure application into cereal rye cover crop in the fall

April 4, 2018

Research Updates

cropwatch graphic

April 6, 2018

Insects in Cover Crop Systems

Cereal rye cover crop

April 19, 2018

Q&A on Grazing Cereal Rye after an Anhydrous Application

By Daren Redfearn - Extension Forage Crop Residue Specialist, Mary Drewnoski - Beef Systems Specialist, Brian Krienke - Former Soils Extension Educator

Cover crop field with mixed-species plantings

April 20, 2018

Timing of Cover Crop Termination and Related Factors

By Daren Redfearn - Extension Forage Crop Residue Specialist, Amit Jhala - Professor and Associate Department Head, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Justin McMechan - Crop Protection and Cropping Systems Specialist

Cereal rye in corn stubble

April 25, 2018

Q&A on Terminating Cereal Rye, Applying a PRE

By Amit Jhala - Professor and Associate Department Head, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture

Figure 1. Seasonal ecology of wheat stem maggot (Allen 1933) overlaid on 2017 field issues. Arrows indicate likely source of infestation started with adult movement in the spring.

April 25, 2018

Wheat Stem Maggot Adult Monitoring: A Pest of Cover Crop-to-Corn Transitions

By Justin McMechan - Crop Protection and Cropping Systems Specialist, Robert Wright - Extension Entomologist, Gabriela Inveninato Carmona - Entomology Graduate Student

Broadleaf weeds

April 27, 2018

Q&A: Which Dicamba Product Should I Use to Kill Broadleaf Cover Crops or Burndown Weeds Before Xtend Soybean?

By Amit Jhala - Professor and Associate Department Head, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture

Comparison of cover crop planting dates

May 4, 2018

How Planting Date, Varieties Affect Spring Cover Crop Growth

By Daren Redfearn - Extension Forage Crop Residue Specialist, Roger Elmore - Emeritus Extension Cropping Systems Agronomist

cropwatch graphic

January 8, 2018

Integrating Cover Crops into a Corn and Soybean Cropping System

By Katja Koehler-Cole - Research Assistant Professor in Agronomy and Horticulture, Chris Proctor - Weed Management Extension Educator, Angela Bastidas - Ph.D. Student in Agronomy, Roger Elmore - Emeritus Extension Cropping Systems Agronomist