National Ag News

A field crop educator says now is a good time to consider investing in conservation practices like cover crops given the current economic climate for farmers.

James DeDecker is with Michigan State University Extension.  “You may not have a lot of opportunity for profitability with some of the other crops you normally have in rotation, so take that opportunity to instead make a little bit of an investment in conservation that hopefully will have long term benefits.”

He tells Brownfield on-farm research in 2016 compared interseeding different cover crops into corn two to three weeks after plants emerged. 

Continue reading Early seeding cover crops into corn at Brownfield Ag News.