Oats were once a major Minnesota crop, with about 4 million acres planted annually on average until the early 1960s. But in 2025, oats accounted for only 195,000 planted acres in Minnesota, and those ...

Include photos of your produce or the lushness of the garden itself to celebrate the fruits of your labor. They can motivate ...

In this video, we explore the time requirements for growing food and address common excuses related to gardening. We discuss ...

Bridget Hatfield (Technical Services Manager, Kemin Crop Technologies): “Nematodes are incredibly diverse and often very small roundworms. Fruit growers should care about nematodes because some ...

Q: I've been told to rotate the crops in my vegetable garden. Last year’s garden was very successful, and I don’t want to “fix it if it is not broken”. A: Crop rotation, which has been around for ...

I was out at our Seed to Supper Farm early last week for what was likely our final harvest of the season and was able to harvest some beautiful Chinese cabbage. For those who aren’t aware, we have an ...

Although crop rotation is practised widely in Europe, notably for the control of crop pests, diseases and invasive weeds, monocultures[1] still dominate in Africa and Southern Asia. Elsewhere, ...

On assignment in northern Thailand, National Geographic photographer Rena Effendi follows Miss Wisa, a farmer leading her community toward a more resilient and sustainable food future. Miss Wisa uses ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. NINA MOINI: Some farmers in Minnesota and Iowa are banding together to add oats to their usual soybean and corn crop rotations. It's a movement rooted in ...

Introduction: Sorghum, an important crop for food and raw material for Baijiu production, is typically cultivated using monocropping. However, the impact of long-term sorghum monocropping on soil ...

If you drive past agricultural fields a lot (or live next to one), you’ve probably noticed that a field might be full of corn one year, soybeans the next, or maybe even something like wheat or a cover ...