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Check out our collection of videos on cover crops, including videos on rye and winter wheat, alfalfa, clovers, mustards, planting cover crops, cover crop basics, management, and more.

Cover Crops in Southern Alberta - Blair Balog

Blair Balog joins us from Stamp Seeds to detail observations he's seen in cover crops across southern Alberta. Together, with some help from Farming Smarter's Field Tested manager Lewis Baarda, the pair highlight some of the successes and challenges growers have encountered, and how to identify ... More ›

Flax

Keith Berns & Dale Strickler from Green Cover discuss Flax as a cover crop in our Summer 2022 plots. These plots were planted May 21st and filmed on July 25th in Bladen, NE.... More ›

Savings Soils with Potato Cover Crops - 21

Lewis Baarda is here to take us through the field and show off our potato cover crops research project! This is part of our Saving Soils study funded by RBC's Tech for Nature grant and Weston Family Foundation. Our goal with this project is to eliminate erosion effects post potato harvest.... More ›

Roller Crimping Cover Crops, Dr. Gurbir Dhillon - Field School 23

Dr. Gurbir Dhillon showcases our Roller Crimping Cover Crop project to kick off Field School 2023! The goal is to provide the cash crops with living biomass to aid in growth & emergence by terminating cover crops with a roller crimper. We investigated multiple timings in our trials to identify t... More ›

Fall Planted Cover Crop Update: 23-day post drilling lets look at roots, germ,emergence and progress

Fall Planted Cover Crop Update: 23-day post drilling lets look at roots, germ,emergence and progress | | Grow The Farm Up... More ›

DON'T GO IT ALONE - Cooking With Covers, Ep. 3

Oh Ethan! Managing the farm has been stressful. He's overwhelmed and doesn't know what to do. Luckily, Woody Van Arkel and Mel Luymes have a recipe: Reach out to some trusted peers and ask for help. Mistakes will be made, but when we work together everyone harvests the benefits. Don't go it alon... More ›

Biostrip Research Across Ontario

By growing specific cover crops in strips, so-called "biostrips" may help create a good seedbed before planting next year's crop. But how do they compare with strip tillage, no-tillage? This experiment led by Drs Laura Van Eerd and Joshua Nasielski will explore the effect of cover crop and tilla... More ›

Cover Crop Grazing: Josh Ramsburg, Rock Creek Farms

This video features the process of incorporating cover crop grazing into regular crop rotation at Rock Creek Farms, PA. It was produced as part of Capital RC&D’s "Promoting Grazing and Cover Cropping by Developing Better Practice Information, Outreach and Cost-sharing" project, a collaboration b... More ›

We Need These Cover Crops to Grow - Regenerating The Ranch Ep 7 - Regenerative Grazing

Cover crops are a vital part of our grazing operation, especially in our introduced pastures. Because of the drought we have not had success during our growing seasons to carry our our current numbers. Why are cover crops important anyways?... More ›

Planing For Year Long Grazing On Cover Crops At Young Red Angus.

Planing For Year Long Grazing On Cover Crops At Young Red Angus. | | Young Red Angus... More ›

Grazing High tonnage Cover-crops

Cows are grazing a high tonnage cover crop field. Established end of June this is the first graze. We will come back in with a fall-winter cover crop.... More ›

Cattle Grazing on Cover Crops in Faribault County, MN

Cattle Grazing on Cover Crops in Faribault County, MN. Producer Andy Linder discusses the methods and benefits of grazing steers on cover crops. Videography by Dan Balluff.... More ›

Grazing Cover Crops: Why Should a Livestock Producer Use Cover Crops?

In Part 4 of Pasture Project’s video series on grazing cover crops, we focus on the why cover crops should be a key part of a grazier’s annual forage chain. Thanks to Dr. Allen Williams (Pasture Project & Grass Fed Insights, LLC), Dan Jenniges (Jenniges Hidden Acres), Wade Dooley (Glenwood Cent... More ›

Cover Cropping on the Canadian Prairies

Webinar presentation (November 3, 2021) putting cover cropping into context for Canadian Prairie farmers and stakeholders and describe what type of farms are using cover crops, why farms are using cover crops, cover crop agronomy, what benefits and challenges farms have experienced, and what cou... More ›

Cover Crops - Andrea Basche

UNL Assistant Professor of Soil and Water Sciences, Andrea Basche shares the results of a recent soil health study. She advises us on the use of Cover Crops and the benefits they bring to soil health.... More ›