Cover Crops Information

 

Managing Cover Crops Profitably, text version, pdf version can be downloaded from here also. http://www.sare.org/Learning-Center/Books/Managing-Cover-Crops-Profitably-3rd-Edition/Text-Version

 

Cover Crops: A Guide for Iowa Producers (Natural Resources Conservation Service publication) http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs142p2_005818.pdf

 

Midwest Cover Crops Council http://www.mccc.msu.edu/, includes a cover crops selector tool

 

Midwest Cover Crops Field Guide 2^nd Edition https://store.extension.iastate.edu/Product/Midwest-Cover-Crops-Field-Guide-2nd-Edition

 

Making the Most of Mixtures: Considerations for Winter Cover Crops in Temperate Climates (Penn State University) http://extension.psu.edu/publications/ee0166/view

 

USDA Agricultural Research Service Cover Crops Chart https://www.ars.usda.gov/plains-area/mandan-nd/ngprl/docs/cover-crop-chart/

 

Radishes - A New Cover Crop for Organic Farming Systems (thorough review on radish cover crop) https://eorganic.org/node/4182

 

SmartMix Calculator by Green Cover Seed https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com/

This link is offered as a service. Iowa State University does not endorse the creator of the calculator nor guarantee the appropriateness of the recommendations generated.

 

Western Illinois University, Dr. Joel Gruver (power points with interesting photos)

• http://www.slideshare.net/jbgruver/cover-cro
• https://practicalfarmers.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Joel-Gruver-Alternative-technologies-for-timely-cover-crop-establishment.pdf

 

Allamakee SWCD aerial seeding cover crops 2012 http://allamakeeswcd.org/aerial-seeding-cover-crops/

 

Iowa Learning Farms Webinars 2011 ILF Webinar Archives. March: Jeremy Singer "Managing Cover Crops" https://www.extension.iastate.edu/ilf/page/webinars/

 

Planting Winter Rye after Corn Silage: Managing the Forage http://ipcm.wisc.edu/download/pubsNM/Rye_090507_final.pdf

 

Herbicides and cover crops:

• Iowa State University - Effect of Residual Herbicides on Cover Crop Establishment https://crops.extension.iastate.edu/effect-residual-herbicides-cover-crop-establishment

 

• Iowa State University - Herbicide Use may Restrict Grazing options for Cover Crops https://store.extension.iastate.edu/Product/Herbicide-use-may-restrict-grazing-options-for-cover-crops
• Penn State University - Common corn and soybean herbicides, estimated half-lives, cash crop restrictions and their potential to injure fall cover crops http://extension.psu.edu/plants/crops/soil-management/cover-crops/herbicide-persistence/herbicide-carryover-table
• Practical Farmers of Iowa - Herbicide Carryover Injury to Cover Crops http://practicalfarmers.org/farmer-knowledge/research-reports/2014/herbicide-carryover-injury-cover-crops/
• University of Wisconsin - Is it legal to use a cover crop as a forage crop? Maybe not... https://wcws.cals.wisc.edu/2014/03/24/new-fact-sheet-herbicide-rotation-restrictions-in-forage-and-cover-cropping-systems/

 

Soil Health

• Natural Resources Conservation Service Soil Health Web Page http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/soils/health/

• South Dakota Natural Resources Conservation Service - https://prod.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb1187343.pdf (Note that the species listed on the last page were suggested for cover establishment in mid-summer on prevented planting fields in South Dakota and may not be appropriate for normal cover crop use in Iowa.)

 

Reducing Nutrient Loss: Science Shows What Works https://store.extension.iastate.edu/Product/Reducing-Nutrient-Loss-Science-Shows-What-Works