From the Fields: Cover crop could fuel aviation industry

I’m planning for a couple meetings that I’m hosting. I’m hosting an informational meeting about CoverCress as a potential different crop for growers to grow versus corn, soybeans and wheat to add some diversity.

With the sustainable aviation fuel coming online, CoverCress looks like it’s going to be something that we need to at least take a look at as a valid additional crop that we could grow.

We’ll also be talking about 45Z and how that affects the local elevators that will then transfer corn to the ethanol plants. We’ll hopefully get some guidance on what growers need to do in order to capitalize on that and be ready when it really does hit.

I’m also still doing tissue testing. Guys want to know what they’re deficient on and how they can better care for the crops. So, we’re still doing that to either put some more foliars out there late season or develop a trend line for ways to care for their crop next year.