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

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

Companion plants provide a range of services to their partners. Some deter pests through chemical compounds in their foliage, ...

Cover crops cost roughly $35 to $40 an acre, and farmers don’t make a direct profit from it. The crops are planted in the ...

The executive director of the Association of Illinois Soil & Water Conservation Districts says farmers across the state are ...

Cover cropping involves planting crops with the intention of improving growing conditions rather than obtaining a harvest. Growers may plant winter rye in the fall to protect the soil over the winter ...

When Steve Stierwalt studied agriculture at the University of Illinois in the 1970s, soil health wasn’t commonly taught or ...

Illinois helped get for subsidies to farmers for planting cover crops in the fall, yet despite its popularity with growers, ...

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