Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil ...

When Steve Stierwalt studied agriculture at the University of Illinois in the 1970s, soil health wasn’t commonly taught or discussed. Faculty often told their young farming students to put all their ...

Planting dry beans into spring cover crops could be a measure to protect young plants from damaging weather conditions like ...

An assessment of “regenerative agriculture” – which focuses on improving soils, producing food and increasing farmland ...

When it comes to till vs. no-till, there is give and take in any situation, according to an Ashland County soil conservationist.

COVER CROP ROI Ferrie’s 10 years of cover crop strip trials usually produced negative ROIs. “Even if we didn’t lose yield, there was no additional yield to offset the cost of the cover crop ...

Cover crops help avoid soil erosion and runoff. Gov. JB Pritzker is proposing a 31% funding cut to a program that helps ...

Greening spring pastures and growing cover crops are great opportunities for livestock to graze and reduce the need for fed ...

A field planted with cereal rye, one of the most common cover crops in Iowa. Photo by Ally Larson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons ...