From mitigating soil compaction and reducing erosion, to adding nutrients to soil and suppressing weeds, there are many ...

If you are not ready to plant green, then spraying your cover crop would be the best option. Your cover crop should be ...

Cover crops are less popular, but often still profitable, plants that are planted in between harvests of a farmer’s main crop to replenish that soil. There’s a wide variety of plants that are grown as ...

Wheat harvest (and harvest for other short season crops) is full speed ahead. With the early harvest, some of you may be thinking about seeding cover crops. Here I will share information on how to get ...

ABERDEEN, S.D. - Cover crops are a relatively new thing in the region's agriculture, and they carry special challenges for organic producers who don't have chemical solutions to fall back on to ...

This commentary is by Ron Krupp, author of “The Woodchuck’s Guide to Gardening,” “The Woodchuck Returns to Gardening” and his forthcoming book, “The Woodchuck’s Guide to Ornamentals & Landscape Plants ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – No one wants to think of harvest’s end as the vegetable garden reaches peak, but now’s the time to plant over-winter cover crops to improve your soil for next season. If you’re not ...

In recent years, we’ve seen a significant increase in the use of—and funding for—cover crops such as winter rye, oats, red clover and cowpeas. Cover cropping has been shown to help protect land from ...

Already a national leader for use of cover crops, Indiana wants a fivefold increase in acreage planted in the off-season grains by 2025. If the Hoosier State pulls this off, nearly half the state’s 11 ...

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Iowa is launching a first-in-the-country “good farmer discount” for cover crops through crop insurance premiums, which could become a model for the nation. It will provide a small, $5 per-acre ...