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 ...

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

Illinois farmers like Steve Stierwalt adopt cover crops to address soil erosion and reduce runoff pollution, protecting ...

Treyson Culwell, a fourth-generation farmer and seedsman for Channel, grew a 5-acre test plot of three traited, short-stature corn hybrids last year and saw the crop respond positively to late ...

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

This database describes the cover cropping strategies, detailed practices, benefits, and challenges of experienced cover crop ...

Unverferth Manufacturing Co., Inc. announces the addition of a mounted cover crop seeder for its Rolling Harrow soil conditioner to provide time-saving, one-pass planting of these profit-enhancing ...

Cover crops are sown between main crops to improve ... the risk to plant anything that might interfere with that in the short term,” Blesh said. Megan Goldenberg is the project manager for ...

He has been using no-till and minimal tillage since 2010 and cover crops since around 2016. Johnson says he gets a lot of questions from producers about the cost of implementing conservation ...

Cover crops after the main crop has been harvested from a field (Emily Beament/PA) A shift away from the familiar sight of bare winter fields can help improve soils and boost wildlife, a study ...