Prevent plant cover crop performance

Flown by Austin Pearson, Agriculture & Natural Resource Educator, Purdue Extension – Tipton County

In 2019, this producer took preventative planting due to wet spring conditions. Cereal rye was planted as a cover crop in fall 2018, so the producer decided to map the field for cover crop performance. The maps were also used to plan the installation of subsurface drainage. A still photo for a natural overview.

Image of Cereal rye crops from up high

The green areas indicate a healthy cover crop and the red shows areas drowned out by rain.

In-field Conservation Examples

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Prevent plant cover crop performance

In 2019, this producer took preventative planting due to wet spring conditions...

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Conventional vs. cover crop in soybeans

These flights evaluate conventional management with no-till cover crop management...

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Cover crop planting method comparison

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Giant ragweed in cover crops

In addition to the cover crop comparison above, some strips of cereal rye/hairy vetch were...

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Preliminary cover crop data collection to serve as a performance model

The map below was created a few days after spring termination of the cover crop. Treatments...

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Cover crop interseed demonstration

A local producer wanted to interseed cover crops at planting time to maximize benefits and was...

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Drone cover crop seeding

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Strawberry planting

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