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Kevin Booth resides in the Dark Brown Soil zone and farms with his family in Milo, Alberta, one mile southeast of the town. The Booth family's study field spans 147 acres, with 135 acres having access to irrigation during the growing season. The trial field received a glyphosate application as a spring burn-off and was seeded to a Full-Season cover crop on May 27, 2024. The trial field was also fertilized with 35 lbs. of actual nitrogen at seeding. No other synthetic inputs were applied to the field during the remainder of the trial.

Over the past year, livestock producers across western Canada have seen tremendous success with the prices of their commodity, which has been much waited on. Moving into the spring of 2025, some producers are in a position of uncertainty as to what crops to grow as annual cropping prices have decreased from past years, and in many regions, lots of producers had a very successful 2024 growing season, resulting in significant amounts of carry-over feed sources.

Connor English is situated in Manitoba’s Black soil zones, roughly two kilometres north of Bradwardine, Manitoba. The study field covered 20 acres of Full-Season cover crop. The trial field was spot-sprayed using a pre-burn treatment of glyphosate. At seeding, 40 lbs of actual nitrogen was applied through mid-row banders of a John Deere disc drill. The Full-Season cover crop was seeded on May 17, and the field was seeded and fertilized in a single pass.

Could poor water infiltration, salinity, soil compaction, disease, loss of earthworms, erosion, decline in OM%, herbicide resistance & year-after-year insect infestations all be individual and unrelated problems? Perhaps they are better looked at as symptoms of a deeper, underlying problem?

Dean Wiegand farms in the Dark Grey soil zones of Alberta, approximately 11 kilometres Southwest of Westlock, Alberta. His study field encompassed 132 acres of Full Season Cover Crop. Dean applied a pre-burn treatment using Roundup and Pardner.

On January 22, a group gathered in Kendal to discuss plant diversity and farm profitability. Around 10 producers attended the networking opportunity held by Covers & Co. who provide cover crop and forage seed to Western Canada.

The Dunsmore Family farm is located in Saskatchewan's dark brown soil zones, approximately 12 kilometres Northwest of Asquith, Saskatchewan. The study field encompassed 65 acres of Full-Season Cover Crop.

Shawn Catherwood chose to undertake a trial on his farm comparing mono-crop “cowboy” Barley vs. the Full Season Cover. The trial encompassed 25 acres total and was split between the mono-crop Barley seeded on 13 acres and the Full-Season Cover Crop on 12 acres.

Chance Rothwell farms in the black soil zones of Saskatchewan, approximately 20 kilometres west of Shellbrook, Saskatchewan. His research field encompassed 75 acres, divided equally between a Warm Season Cover crop and a Full Season Cover crop.

Can how and what we feed increase our overall profitability? Most producers would answer YES to this question, but the topic gets a little more interesting when we talk about ways to improve forage quality to a point where we see significant reductions in other costs.

I wanted to write a short blog today on your options after taking a winter cereal crop (cereal rye, winter wheat, winter triticale) for silage or grazing. The idea is to harvest two forage crops in the same year. An excellent option to maximize total production per acre while minimizing cost.

This week-long event brought together experienced farmers from across the prairies to share their knowledge and experiences growing our Warm Season Cover blend. The goal of the week? To bring awareness to the value warm season plant species can have on the farm.

Hello, friends.In lieu of "Warm Season Week," I wanted to share my experiences using the Warm Season Cover blend for swath grazing over the past couple of years.

First off, thanks to everyone who took the time to read my short blog on putting the Full Season Cover up as dry feed! Although more and more producers are putting up the Full Season Cover as dry feed, I would guess that at least 50% of the acres are still put as silage.

We wanted to touch on some expectations as your Full Season Cover establishes itself. Once the crop is germinated, the lower plant population can cause the plant stand to look thin. This is a very important time in the life of the Full Season Cover. The battle for sunlight is afoot.

One of my favourite parts of my job as sales manager for Covers & Co. is that I get to talk to hundreds of people about their farms. One question I frequently get about the Full Season Cover crop is “Can I put it up dry?” I wanted to take a bit of time and answer that question as well as pass on some tips I’ve picked up on my own farm over the last couple of years.

This week-long event brought together experienced farmers from across the prairies to share their knowledge and expertise on how to get started with our Full Season Cover blend. The goal of the week? To help minimize the headaches in adopting multi-species cover crops for silage, dry hay and extended fall grazing.

New for 2023! We are excited to launch a new intercrop seed variety that we’ve been working on for some time – our new forage soybean. Intercropping corn with our herbicide-tolerant forage soybeans will produce better feed for your cattle in the short-term, improve soil health in the long-term, and ease herbicide management challenges.

Today we wanted to come to you from the perspective of the cattle farmer as we are facing record high nitrogen fertilizer prices. What does this mean to the cattle farmer? What can we do?

Today we wanted to touch on the positive effects a green manure disc down can have on soil compaction and increased yields the following year. This is a two-year study that will continue to be researched and measured (yield) going forward into 2022 and 2023.

With the food industry taking note of the regenerative agriculture movement, we thought it would be a good idea to highlight the initiative that a cattle producer & a grain producer have taken to align with the vision of these companies.

With the upcoming forecast calling for frost, we wanted to touch on a few concerns farms have been having.

Today we wanted to touch on some Full Season Cover best practices as we head into plant 2021.

Today, we wanted to touch on a few different pea intercrops shared by farms implementing these practices.

Today we wanted to touch on some easy to implement practices to get you started on your soil health path.

Today, we wanted to touch on some of the interesting observations we made from the 2020 full season cover growing season.

Today, we wanted to touch on some of our harvest results from our Nutrient Density Trial (No Synthetic Fertilizer) the year after the Full Season Cover was grown.