Cover crops provide a variety of benefits, but if you don’t terminate them well they can limit your cash crop’s success. Because there is more than one way to get the job done, be sure to consider ...

Conservation methods can help rejuvenate farmland, but the startup cost and uncertain results mean a risk many farmers still aren't willing to take. The University of Missouri Center for Regenerative ...

A new cover crop survey is now open for prairie farmers and agronomists. Cover crops are plants grown in between or after ...

Among cover crop types, grasses and mixtures reduced pigweed density by 60 percent and 77 percent in early season, 53 percent and 59 percent in midseason, and 44 percent and 47 percent in late season.

Cover crops play an important role in protecting the soil and water when cash crops like corn or soybean are not actively growing. The National Conservation Service promoted the use of cover crops ...

Maybe after you finish your vegetable harvest, you mentally say, “I’m done this year,” and wait to start again next year. But a cover crop could benefit you in several ways. By researching now, you ...

Cover crops between avocado trees at Petty Ranch (Photo courtesy Petty Ranch) Chris Sayer, a lemon and avocado grower (along with some figs) in Ventura County, California, has been using cover crops ...

Your cotton fields might benefit from several kinds of winter cover crops which can control erosion, manage nutrients, and improve soil health, including a crimson clover cover crop or even a vetch ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - You may still be cleaning dust out of some nooks and crannies from the storm that turned the sky orange nearly two weeks ago. The CEO of Plains Cotton Growers, Kody Bessent, ...

Planting cover crops ahead of corn can be tricky but is not impossible. Learn which species work, which don’t and how much ...