Consider herbicide carryover injury potential and rotation interval restrictions when seeding cover crops this fall.

As we approach the fall cover crop planting season, the industry is starting to see shortages of a few different crops like radishes, hairy vetch and annual clovers due to the record amount of acreage that was planted last year as part of USDA’s prevent plant program. Read more in this article from Go Seed.

The Illinois Department of Agriculture will adopt and implement a crop insurance reward program for cover crops that American Farmland Trust and a coalition of agriculture, environmental and conservation organizations developed.

Three-year project demonstrates improved forage inventories and soil quality on two Pennsylvania farms where fall cover crops were used, says Penn State University Extension.

In case you missed them, here are the items that have garnered the most interest from other farmers in the month of November.

From October 16th - November 15th, we asked No-Till Farmer readers: "What cover crops did you plant this year?"