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Cover Crops

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

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

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

Allen Williams

August 24, 2018

Cover Crop, Adaptive Grazing Program Sept. 5

September 27, 2018

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

By Aaron Berger - Beef 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

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

Cover crops in eastern Nebraska

December 11, 2018

Cover Crop Management Day Jan. 16

Tyler Williams speaks at one of the 2018 Successful Farmer sessions

December 12, 2018

Extension Successful Farmer Series Starts January 4

By Tyler Williams - Former Cropping Systems Extension Educator

Hairy vetch cover crop

January 9, 2019

Impact of Cover Crop Management on Rainfed Corn Production in Western Nebraska

By Alexandre Tonon Rosa - Learning Center Agronomist, Bayer Crop Science, Roger Elmore - Emeritus Extension Cropping Systems Agronomist, Daran Rudnick - Former Extension Irrigation Management Specialist, Cody Creech - Dryland Cropping Systems Specialist, Rodrigo Werle - Former Cropping Systems Specialist

Figure 1. Cover crop trials were conducted in 2017-2018 at the UNL Havelock Research Farm near Lincoln to discover the impact of several practices on management of winter- and summer-annual weeds.

January 9, 2019

Using Cover Crops as a Weed Management Tool for Managing Herbicide-Resistant Weeds

By Chris Proctor - Weed Management Extension Educator, Josh Wehrbein - Graduate Research Assistant

Comparison of aboveground biomass amounts and total N when using hairy vetch or cereal rye as cover crops.

January 9, 2019

Cover Crops Benefit Nebraska Agroecosystems In Many Ways

By Katja Koehler-Cole - Extension Educator, Roger Elmore - Emeritus Extension Cropping Systems Agronomist, Humberto Blanco - Professor of Soil Science, Chris Proctor - Weed Management Extension Educator, Sabrina Ruis - Post-Doctoral Associate, Surabhi Gupta - Doctoral Student in Entomology, Charles Francis - Professor of Agronomy, Charles Shapiro - Former Extension Soil Scientist—Crop Nutrition