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In a Nutshell: Strategies are needed to offset the cost of cover crops that precede corn while minimizing yield drag and seedling diseases and maximizing cover crop benefits. In the second year of a two-year project, four cooperators …
Publish Date
May 6, 2021
PFI Staff
Hayley Nelson
Cooperators
Jon Bakehouse
Monty Douglas
Alec Amundson
Camden Watson
Collaborators
Erin Ogle – Taylor County Soil and Water Conservation District, Natural Resources Conservation Service
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This project was supported by the Walton Family Foundation In a Nutshell: Interseeding cover crops to corn at the V4 stage has gained attention for its potential to foster successful diverse species mixes and generate more biomass than …
Publish Date
June 12, 2019
PFI Staff
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Cooperators
Chris Teachout
Michael Vittetoe
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In a Nutshell Fungal diseases and lodging can present challenges to raising small grain crops, like cereal rye, in Iowa. Farmer-cooperators investigated the use of fungicides and plant growth regulators on cereal rye seed crops to determine effects …
Publish Date
September 30, 2016
PFI Staff
Stefan Gailans
Cooperators
Tim Sieren
Jack Boyer
Dick Sloan
