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Category Archives: Field Crops

Cover Crops are really growing!

Cover crops are growing! If you’ve seen some bright green fields around the countryside then you are probably seeing some [...]

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Canola: the cover crop that’s a cash crop, too

Check out this article about canola research in Iowa.

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Farminar Jan-10 on Tax Preparation tips for farmers

On Tuesday January 10, 2012, the 2012 Winter Farminar Series began. 41 folks tuned in live to learn from farmer [...]

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Gustafson Field day

Jeremy and Kelly Gustafson and Jeremy’s father Steve and uncle Larry hosted 60 farmers and NRCS and IDALS staffers to [...]

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Winter cover crops in SW Iowa

  Kelly Tobin hosted 60 farmers, NRCS staff and IDALS staff including Secretary Bill Northey to his farm on August [...]

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The Cool Green Blankie

The Cool Green Blankie By Julie A. Petersen, Knoxville, IA

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Git-R-Done!

Check this out in Pocohontas County today.

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Rye and Goss’s Wilt?

Can Winter Rye Increase Goss’s Wilt?  Some farmers are concerned about winter cover crops being a potential host for Goss’s [...]

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Cover Crops on the web

Check out these three recent posts about cover crops. Storm Damage is Opportunity for Cover Crops from Wallace’s Farmer website [...]

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Cover Crop Field Day Spencer, IA

Jeff Joyce, beginning farmer near Ruthven, IA hosted a field day focused on strip tillage, cover crops nutrient management on [...]

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Cover Crops + Corn or Soybeans

Two awesome blogs about corn and soybeans following cover crops in the eastern part of the cornbelt. Corn After a [...]

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June 1 West Chester Cover Crop Field Day

Rob Stout hosted a field day about cover crops on his farm near West Chester in SE IA. Farmers, ISU [...]

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Slurry Seeding Cover Crops – Blight Farms (Albion, MI)

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ON-FARM RESEARCH DESIGN Those who are thinking about conducting on-farm research please look at the map below. This is available [...]

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Interested in conducting on-farm research about cover crops this fall? PFI again this year has money available to conduct several [...]

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