Cover Crop Conversations: Farmer-to-Farmer Insights Across Illinois is back for another exclusive session with questions and ...

No one knows who first invented the idea of using cover crops to protect soil in agriculture fields, but by 6000 B.C. farmers ...

New research from Iowa State University, that builds on research released last fall, finds that only 6.6 percent of cover ...

Regenerative agriculture methods, such as cover crops, are one way farmers try to improve the health of their overworked soil ...

A new five-year study is quantifying the benefits of conservation practices such as cover cropping using data from farmers across Wisconsin. Researchers say the project is one of the region’s most ...

The likelihood of seeing a benefit from planting a cover crop, however, is closely related to the amount of biomass produced ...

While farmers plant millions acres of plants like rye and clover to boost soil health and crowd out weeds, a cover crop does the same thing in the smallest home garden. With cover crops, a vegetable ...

More than 70 farmers and agencies attended a round table to discuss farming methods that aim to provide a more sustainable future for crops grown in the Salinas Valley. According to the United States ...

Aaron Lehman is the president of the Iowa Farmers Union and is a fifth-generation farmer from central Iowa. Iowa is a nationwide leader in a conservation practice known as cover cropping. For nearly a ...

GOSHEN — Purdue Extension Elkhart County is offering free cover crop seed while supplies last. Small packets have been made up to seed roughly a 100 square foot area (10 feet by 10 feet, for example, ...

According to the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy, an initiative aimed at reducing nitrogen and phosphorus runoff into Iowa’s ...