Prioritize specific agronomic outcomes—like erosion control or nitrogen fixation—before opening the seed catalog.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For an Earth-friendly garden, keep a succession of plants in the soil by planting cover crops. These are plants grown to improve the soil rather than for ...

Seeding method. Broadcast seeding methods result in less seed-to-soil contact and higher risk of seed loss to birds and other ...

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 ...

‘Prosperity,’ customer pressure help stir cover crop interest The ‘yo-yo’ principle of managing cover crops Is USDA overpromoting cover crops? This is the first part of a four-part series examining ...

Cover crops are plants that are planted to cover the soil to keep it in place and improve soil health. They can be intercropped with other crops or planted after harvesting. The crops are mainly grown ...

Daikon radishes used as a cover crop. (Photo: Edwin Remsberg/SARE) Producers can break even in as little as two years But seed, planting costs challenge economics Landowners can frustrate farmers’ ...

A DJI Agras was used to spread cover crops over standing soybeans. Cover crop mixes varied and were compared against the same mixes drilled after harvest. Several demonstrations are planned across the ...

Only a fraction of conventional row crop farmers grow cover crops after harvest, but a new global analysis from the University of Illinois shows the practice can boost soil microbial abundance by 27%.

Vineyards are frequently established on inherently poor soils 1 and subjected to intensive management practices, threatening soil functions and associated ecosystem services 2,3,4. Moreover, the ...

Clover acting as a cover crop in a corn plantation. Cover crops are plants that are planted to cover the soil to keep it in place and improving soil health. They can be intercropped with other crops ...