White clover serves as the premier living mulch system over any other legume.

Aerial seeding cover crop questions have been numerous this month. Indeed, the wet month of August does greatly increase the probability that aerial seeding will be successful as we enter September.

Producers looking for an easy, inexpensive way to improve their pastures and hay fields can consider taking advantage of the still-frozen grounds and try frost seeding now for green pastures later, according to a forage expert from Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.

Seeding various legume cover crops after wheat can supply nitrogen (N) to your following crop, Penn State University says.

Brian Crowther of McPherson is being recognized for farming practices he began over a decade ago.

Anecdotal evidence of soil nitrogen consistently being above expected levels in no-till, cereal-on-cereal farming systems raises questions over the established wisdom of how nitrogen replenishment works, according to Western Australian consultant and no-till advocate Bill Crabtree.

One of the more common questions that I have been asked recently is whether the corn or soybean herbicide program will pose a problem for seeding fall cover crops.