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 ...

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 crop growth is lagging in parts of the Upper Midwest. Southern Minnesota farmer Rochelle Krusemark says soil conditions remain cool and dry. “Unfortunately, with everything that was seeded last ...

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

In the early 2010s, Stierwalt started experimenting with cover crops, which can help hold soil in place and reduce runoff ...

Iowa’s data for the Midwest Cover Crops Council cover crop decision tool, which was last revised in 2019, was updated to ...