From mitigating soil compaction and reducing erosion, to adding nutrients to soil and suppressing weeds, there are many reasons to plant fall cover crops.

A quick-growing legume, crimson clover ( Trifolium incarnatum) excels at fixing nitrogen, while its root system helps break ...

Get ready for your 2025 garden with these 10 gardening tips that make it easy and efficient. - **Cover crops:** Learn how they can improve your soil. - **Composting:** Demystify the art of composting ...

Research shows cover crops are not profitable for most farmers without cost-share payments or livestock making it a challenge to grow the practice, which can have public and agronomic benefits. Editor ...

The Centre County Conservation District is excited to announce the Cover Crop Incentive Program for the 2025-2026 crop year opened Sept. 15. Farmers who plant a winter cover crop are eligible for the ...

For the first time, farmers in California and throughout the West have a decision-support tool that recommends cover-crop ...

Sunflowers are the most noticeable of the cover crops that the couple use at Haz-Wald Farms, the limited liability ...

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Sunflower harvest was also completed. The confection sunflower yield was disappointing due to many very light seeds. Some of the seeds had no meaty inside portion at all. We know we had some disease ...

Herbicides and defoliants are commonly used by farmers in southern regions to quicken the harvest period and reduce the risk ...

Including freshly-cut Westerwolds ryegrass in the ration during housing is increasing daily milk yield by two litres/cow in a Ceredigion dairy ...