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Cover Crops

Cover crops in eastern Nebraska

December 11, 2018

Cover Crop Management Day Jan. 16

Earthworms in a field of cover crops.

November 9, 2018

Southeast Nebraska Cover Crop Tour and Workshop Nov. 20

By Gary Lesoing - Former Extension Educator

Figure 1. Drilling cereal rye into corn stubble in Dodge County, October 19, 2018.

October 24, 2018

It’s Not Too Late to Plant Cereal Rye as a Nitrogen Catch Crop Before Soybean

By Katja Koehler-Cole - Research Assistant Professor in Agronomy and Horticulture, Roger Elmore - Emeritus Extension Cropping Systems Agronomist, Brian Krienke - Former Soils Extension Educator

September 27, 2018

Podcast: A Row Crop Farmer's Perspective on Cover Crops and Cattle Grazing

By Aaron Berger - Beef Extension Educator

Hailed corn

August 24, 2018

Cover Crop Considerations Following Late-season Hail Storms

By Jenny Brhel - Extension Educator, Mary Drewnoski - Beef Systems Specialist, Daren Redfearn - Extension Forage Crop Residue Specialist

Allen Williams

August 24, 2018

Cover Crop, Adaptive Grazing Program Sept. 5

Screen capture from Weed Scientist Chris Proctor's video on managing weeds after hail

August 24, 2018

New Late-Season Hail Videos Added to Hail Know

Figure 1. A view of all four treatments of a corn residue and cover crop experiment at the South Central Agricultural Laboratory near Clay Center. Top left is cereal rye with 60% corn residue removal; top right is cereal with corn residue. Bottom left is no cereal rye with 60% corn residue removal; bottom right is corn residue and no cover crop (control).

August 13, 2018

Cover Crop and Crop Residue Management: How Does it Affect Soil Water in the Short and Long Term?

By Michael Sindelar - Former Cropping Systems Extension Educator, Humberto Blanco - Professor of Soil Science, Virginia Jin - USDA ARS Research Soil Scientist, Richard Ferguson - Extension Soil Fertility Specialist

A diverse 14-way mix was planted into wheat stubble immediately after harvest to keep living roots in the field. The cover crop is using sunlight and carbon dioxide to put energy and carbon into the soil to feed the soil biology.

July 13, 2018

Cover Crops for Soil Health in Storm-damaged Fields

By Paul Jasa - Extension Engineer

cropwatch graphic

July 9, 2018

Considerations for Forage Cover Crops after Hail in Corn and Soybean

By Daren Redfearn - Extension Forage Crop Residue Specialist, Mary Drewnoski - Beef Systems Specialist

cropwatch graphic

May 25, 2018

Related UNL AgNews

Weed Management and Cover Crops Field Day Flyer

May 22, 2018

Weed Management and Cover Crop Field Day at SCAL

By Amit Jhala - Professor and Associate Department Head, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Roger Elmore - Emeritus Extension Cropping Systems Agronomist

field pea

May 16, 2018

June Field Days for Field Peas, Pulses, Wheat, Forage and Cover Crops

Field of cover crops

May 14, 2018

Q&A on Spring Herbicides and Fall Cover Crop Plantings

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

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

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

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 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