National Ag News
MCGA supports cover crop experimentation through Innovation Grants
Apr 21, 2017, 17:27 PM
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A south central Minnesota farmer is entering his second year experimenting with cover crops through financial support provided by the Minnesota Corn Growers Association (MCGA).
Dan Coffman of Nicollet says he took advantage of Innovation Grant dollars and had a lot of success growing cover crops in the first of a three year project.
“We wanted to incorporate cover crops into standing corn. Doing some research, I figured the best way to do that would be to inter-seed a cover crop around V4 to V7 into the corn.”
Coffman seeded a blend of rye, triticale, turnip, radish and rapeseed, using a homemade inter-seeding machine built out of a cultivator.
