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What Cover Crops Can Do
2013-01-01 00:55:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Theyre just one tool this Indiana farmer uses to guard topsoil and boost soil health. By Dean Houghton During 2012s long, hot summer, Roger Wenning got a firsthand look at how a little soil residue can go a long way to add resilience to a crop. On May 14, the Greensburg, Ind., farmer no-tilled corn into a field that had been in a ryegrass/crimson clover cover crop over the winter. Since this was a high population study, he used a twin-row planter to seed at a population of either 39,000 or 45,000 seeds/acre. read more
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