Time for soil rehab

摘要

With the loss of half the soil organic matterin the Corn Belt it's time for cover crop innovation.Frustrated by poor results with preharvest aerial cover crop seeding two years in a row, Minnesota farmer Bryan Biegler shifted to ground application for better results. In Indiana, Mark Kingma has transitioned some acres from fall seeding of cover cropsto corn sidedress time — called interseed-ing. He's seeing benefits beyond soil improvement, like potential weed control.