An overarching goal for planting cover crops is to produce as much biomass as possible during the growing window. Higher levels of cover crop biomass will reduce soil erosion, inhibit weed growth, and ...

Illinois farmer Brian Corkill uses cover crops on most of his ground. Read about what species he uses ahead of corn and ...

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 ...

Cereal rye is a go-to cover crop for many producers, including organic growers looking to avoid a chemical method of weed control. Eric Yu is a University of Minnesota Extension educator on crops ...

This spring, you may have passed farm fields that are green and lush with new growth. They starkly contrast with the dark brown, tille fields that have yet to be planted. What’s growing are cover ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 10, 2022) Cover crops added in-between rows of organic corn while they are still growing can provide a range of benefits that improve a farm’s sustainability and lowers its ...

With cool-season vegetable crops going into the ground, many gardeners who ventured into cover cropping last autumn may ask a familiar question: What do I do now? Their crops have fulfilled their ...

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 ...

This article was written by Jamie Sears Rawlings with Trust In Food. Eighty percent of U.S. growers who participated in the 2022-23 National Cover Crop Survey report that they used cover crops on ...

Beekeepers and researchers say drought across the West this year will likely hurt honey bee colonies. Bees are expected to struggle most in California followed by Oregon, where meteorologists predict ...

Cover crops in minimum or no-tilled systems are usually killed by applying one or more herbicides, thus significantly increasing costs. Applying herbicides at lower rates with mechanical interventions ...