Agronomy Support

How-to Videos

The basics: Seeding to incorporation

Maximizing mustard cover crop biofumigation potential.

Learn how to boost the biofumigation potential of your Mighty Mustard^® cover crop in this video from Michigan State University.

Video courtesy of Michigan State University

Cover crop recipes for first-time cover crop users in Indiana

Presenters: Eileen Kladivko and Bill Johnson – Purdue University, Barry Fisher – USDA-NRCS

These recipes are intended to provide a relatively simple, low-risk strategy for integrating cover crops into a corn-soybean rotation in Indiana and the eastern Cornbelt. The recipes include details on the specific cover crops, seeding rates and dates, and termination guidance and should be useful to both the producer and the crop advisor with limited cover crop experience.

Video courtesy of Midwest Cover Crops Council

Small equipment: Mowing and incorporation

Ron Wallace - Mowing

Big equipment isn’t required to chop and incorporate Mighty Mustard^®. In this video, Ron Wallace’s father uses a riding lawn mower to chop Mighty Mustard^®. He makes two passes to chop the mustard as finely as possible before incorporating it into the soil.

Courtesy of Ron Wallace, world champion giant pumpkin grower and owner of Wallace Organic Wonder.

Ron Wallace - Incorporation

When it comes to incorporating chopped Mighty Mustard^® into your soil, simple equipment will do the job. In this video, Ron Wallace’s father pulls his old 8 horsepower rear tine tiller to incorporate the chopped Mighty Mustard^®. “After this,” Ron said, “we turn on sprinklers to activate the mustard gas. We timed it perfect this year with 1-inch of rainfall.”