Cover crop usage continues to grow across the country. Last week, the Conservation Technology Information Center announced ...

Cover crop acreage continues to grow. In this episode of Managing f Dr. Rob Myers with the University of Missouri explains ...

An assessment of “regenerative agriculture” – which focuses on improving soils, producing food and increasing farmland wildlife – found good evidence that minimising bare soils, for example by growing ...

Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil carbon from erosion, a factor that's underestimated in considering the carbon ...

The physical and natural environments place constraints on what cover crops you can grow. Except for a few aspects, such as improved drainage, you can’t change them much. But you can impact the ...

A friend from church asked me, “Is there any cover crop to plant in the spring?” Traditionally, most home gardeners only plant cover crops in the fall. Spring plantings of cover crops will help ...

Learn about the different kinds of cover crops and their uses in a free webinar led by University of Alaska Fairbanks soil ...

A central Illinois farmer says he’s holding off a bit before terminating his cover crops. Derek Martin, who farms in Logan County, tells Brownfield, “We’ve had some experiences in the past where we’ve ...

Farmers in Door and Kewaunee counties are getting closer to spending long days in their fields again as the weather outlook ...

“You could plant a veggie from a different family in that spot, you could grow a cover crop or you could cover the soil with mulch and leave it unplanted.” Most annual plants commonly grown in ...

Photo by Ally Larson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil carbon from erosion, ...