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Description

Cover crops provide a high-quality and low-cost feed during times of low feed supplies. • Beef graziers worked with neighboring row crop farmers to plant cover crops and monitored grazing value. • Grazing cover crops extended the grazing …


Publish Date
November 1, 2014

PFI Staff
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Cooperators
Tom. Irene and James Frantzen
Description

Cover crops provide a high-quality and low-cost feed during times of low feed supplies. Beef graziers worked with neighboring row crop farmers to plant cover crops and monitored grazing value. Grazing cover crops extended the grazing time on …


Publish Date
November 1, 2014

PFI Staff
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Cooperators
Bruce Carney
Description

Organic hogs typically grow slower and are less efficient than conventional hogs. Differences in management may account for some of this. The Rosmanns worked with ISU swine specialists to implement three levels of feeder management (once-weekly and twice-daily …


Publish Date
November 1, 2014

PFI Staff
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Cooperators
Ron and Maria, Daniel and Ellen Rosmann
Collaborators
Matt Swantek and Dave Stender - Swine Field Specialists, Iowa State University
Description

Feeding cows during the winter is often expensive, requiring investment in stored feeds like hay and extra labor from the producer. In addition to the numerous benefits of cover crops for row crop farmers, livestock can graze the …


Publish Date
November 1, 2014

PFI Staff
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Cooperators
Dave and Meg Schmidt
Description

Organic hogs typically grow slower and are less efficient than conventional hogs. Even a low level of parasite infection can reduce feed efficiency and gain in growing hogs, especially finishing organic hogs which cannot be treated with dewormers. …


Publish Date
September 1, 2014

PFI Staff
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Cooperators
Tom, Irene and James Frantzen
Description

Cover crop entries were hand seeded at locations into standing corn and soybeans and evaluated for fall ground cover, spring ground cover, and spring biomass production. Key Findings Cereal rye and mustard tended to produce the most amount …


Publish Date
August 9, 2014

PFI Staff
Sarah Carlson
Cooperators
Jerry Depew
Jeremy Gustafson
Chad Ingels
Clarke McGrath
Steve McGrew
Mark Peterson
Myron Rees
Dave & Meg Schmidt
Description

Increased adoption of cover crops in corn-soybean production systems has led to concerns of injury to cover crops by carryover activity of commonly applied herbicides. Four cover crop species were sown into plots with standing corn where one …


Publish Date
June 1, 2014

PFI Staff
Stefan Gailans
Collaborators
Meaghan Ryan Iowa State University Department of Agronomy
Description

Thirteen farms participated in fruit and vegetable production recordkeeping. The purpose of the project was to create Iowa-specific production histories for: producers to have baseline comparisons, the advancement of crop insurance options, and to provide information about typical …


Publish Date
March 1, 2014

PFI Staff
Sally Worley
Cooperators
Jill Beebout & Sean Skeehan
Melissa & Andy Dunham
Tammy & Rob Faux
Stacy & Rick Hartmann
Emma Johnson
Susan Jutz
Jan Libbey & Tim Landgraf
Alice McGary & Nicholas Leete
Mark Quee
Matt Russell & Patrick Standley
Ben Saunders
Ellen Walsh-Rosmann & Daniel Rosmann
John & Jessica Wesselius
Description

Winter small grains are used as cover crops. The life cycle of winter grains lends itself to interseeding of a forage legume. Interseeded legumes increase ground cover late in the season and contribute nitrogen to succeeding cash crops. …


Publish Date
February 1, 2014

PFI Staff
Stefan Gailans
Cooperators
Dick Sloan
Description

Cover crops are an important addition to any farming system to improve soil quality and decrease soil erosion and nutrient loss. When this project began, farmers were concerned that a winter rye cover crop could negatively impact their …


Publish Date
February 1, 2014

PFI Staff
Sally Worley
Cooperators
Bill Buman
Randy Caviness
Jim Funcke
Devan Green
Rick Juchems
Larry Ness & Darwin Pierce
Mark Pokorny
George Schaefer
Jerry Sindt
Rob Stout
Gary & Dave Nelson
Kelly Tobin
Description

In a Nutshell Cover crop entries were hand seeded at locations into standing corn and soybeans and evaluated for fall ground cover, spring ground cover, and spring biomass production. Key Findings Cereal rye and mustard tended to produce …


Publish Date
January 14, 2014

PFI Staff
Jason Tetrick
Description

A number of corn hybrids have been developed to have elevated nutrient content. Four high-protein or high-lysine non-GMO corn hybrids were selected for testing: Master’s Choice 535, GEI 101, Channel 213, and eMerge 600. Yield, test weight, protein …


Publish Date
January 1, 2014

PFI Staff
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Cooperators
John Gilbert