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Cover Crops
Cover crops news, programming and other resources from MSU Extension.
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Innovative Cropping Systems Virtual Field Day - Hasenick Brothers Farm
Published on August 26, 2020
Footage from our live Cropping System Resilience Virtual Field Day with Tim Boring and Drew Hasenick, on July 31 at 9am EST.
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Cereal Rye as a Cover Crop
Published on January 9, 2020
MSU Extension Educator, Christina Curell, talks about the pros and cons of using cereal rye as a cover crop.
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Cover Crops Virtual Field Day - Forage and Grazing Breakout Room
Published on September 14, 2020
This roundtable with Forage and Cover Crop Specialist Kim Cassida will answer your questions about ways to add value to your cover crops by harvesting or grazing forage. Come with your questions to be answered. Hosted by Forage Educator Phil Kaatz.
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Cover Crops Virtual Field Day
Published on September 29, 2020
Researchers discuss using cover crops.
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"What's UP @ UPREC?" June 18, 2020, Interseeding cover crops in corn
Published on June 19, 2020
UPREC director Dr. James Dedecker and crew interseed cover crop treatments in V4 corn in Menominee County
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Cover Crops Virtual Field Day - Kellogg Biological Station
Published on September 1, 2020
The W.K. Kellogg Farm provides agronomic support for the Pasture Dairy Center, the Michigan Cover Crops Program at KBS, the LTER program, GLBRC sustainability research and general crops research. The farm oversees all managed crop and pasture lands at KBS, and provides research access and logistical support for all agricultural research at KBS.
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MSU Cover Crop Team Webinar Series: “Planting Green” – Cereal Rye and Soybean
Published on May 15, 2019
The third webinar in this series highlights research at Michigan State University on interseeding soybean into standing cereal rye cover crops.
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Innovative Cropping Systems Virtual Field Day - Dry Beans
Published on August 26, 2020
Footage from our live Cropping System Resilience Virtual Field Day with Tim Boring and Drew Hasenick, on July 31 at 9am EST. Tim discussed topics such as relay cropping, interseeding covers, and no-til dry beans. Field day stops included (1) small grains relay cropped with soybean, (2) inter-seeded cover crops into corn, and (3) dry beans no-tilled into standing covers.
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Can Cover Crops Control Marestail, Horseweed?
Published on February 14, 2020
John A. Schramski, masters student at Michigan State University, shares his research conducted in collaboration with his advisor, Dr. Christy L. Sprague. Horseweed continues to be an issue in Michigan due to herbicide resistance, reduced tillage control, prolonged and unpredictable emergence, and changes in rotation practices. These issues make this week particularly difficult to control.
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Cover Crops Virtual Field Day - Soil Health Breakout Room
Published on September 14, 2020
Dr. Sieglinde Snapp, Professor of Soils and Cropping Systems Ecology and Associate Director of the Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, will lead a discussion on how cover crops can enhance soil health. Hosted by MSU Extension Educator Christina Currell.
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MSU Cover Crop Team Webinar Series: Cover Crops in Michigan - Interseeding Cover Crops
Published on May 15, 2019
The first webinar in this series highlights research from Michigan State University on interseeding cover crops into standing corn.
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Sorghum for Cover Crops and Forage
Published on January 9, 2020
Michigan State University (MSU) Forage and Cover Crop Specialist, Kim Cassida, explores how dual-purpose use for Sorghum cover crops can benefit both soil health and livestock. Forage sorghum, sudangrass, and sorghum-sudangrass hybrids (sometimes abbreviated as sudex) are exceptionally heat and drought tolerant annual crops that are often used as cover crops. They also have a long history as livestock feed harvested as hay, haylage, or pasture. This makes them a prime candidate for dual purpose use as both cover crop and forage. Dual purpose cover crops can help crop growers recoup the cost of planting a cover, while providing much needed feed for livestock. Because roots are not harvested, many of the soil improvement benefits remain. Frost-killed pasture can be stockpiled for winter grazing similar to corn stover, while also continuing to provide ground cover and erosion protection.
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Innovative Cropping Systems Virtual Field Day - Planting Cover Crop Mix
Published on August 26, 2020
Footage from our live Cropping System Resilience Virtual Field Day with Tim Boring and Drew Hasenick, on July 31 at 9am EST. Tim discussed topics such as relay cropping, interseeding covers, and no-til dry beans. Field day stops included (1) small grains relay cropped with soybean, (2) inter-seeded cover crops into corn, and (3) dry beans no-tilled into standing covers.
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Selecting Cover Crop Species for a Mixture
Published on January 9, 2020
MSU Extension Educator, Monica Jean, talks about making decisions on which species to select when planning a cover crop mix.
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Rye Grass as a Cover Crop
Published on January 9, 2020
MSU Extension Educator, Christina Curell, discusses the pros and cons of using rye grass as a cover crop.
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Cover Crops for Preventative Planting, Forage and Following Wheat
Published on July 18, 2019
The MSU Extension Field Crops Virtual Breakfast weekly topic for July 18, 2019, focused on cover crops for preventative planting, forage and following wheat, presented by Dean Baas, MSU Extension Sustainable Agriculture Educator.
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Herbicides and Cover Crops: What Can I Use?
Published on March 14, 2020
In this new video, Dr. Christy Sprague from Michigan State University addresses the question, when planting cover crops, which herbicides can I use?
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Benefits of Brassicas - Cover Crops
Published on January 9, 2020
Michigan State University Extension Educator, Dean Baas, talks about the benefits of using Brassicas as cover crops.
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On Farm Research: Cover Crop Interseeding and Seeding Rates
Published on March 14, 2020
Dr. Karen Renner, Professor in the MSU Plant, Soils and Microbial Sciences Department and graduate student Aaron Brooker have been conducting research into interseeding cover crops into corn between the V1 and V7 growth stages. Previous years’ research found the use of cover crops does not reduce corn yield, and is an effective strategy to improve soil health and suppress winter annual weeds. Their current work, described in this video, builds on this research and looked at different seeding rates and different cover crop mixtures.