Some cover crops can sequester nitrogen for the following corn crop, reducing the amount of applied nitrogen. “In our experience, nitrogen is still cheaper to buy,” Ferrie points out.

He measured how much the cover crops grew, how well the corn did by their side and how many weeds sprung up around them. Earlier this month, the co-op members gathered to hear from him.

Farmers used to plant "cover crops" to rejuvenate fields in the off season. As those were replaced with chemicals, the soil of America's farms suffered. Bringing back the old practice has ...

Incorporating cover crops into their regenerative farming system has been a learning process for the Riskedal family this ...

Bazile Groundwater Management Area Project and Bow Creek Watershed Project are teaming up with Junior Pfanstiel to host a ...

A combine harvests corn, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, at a farm near Allerton, Ill. Cover crops top the list of tasks U.S. farmers are told will build healthy soil, help the environment and fight ...

Corn crops have a voracious appetite for nitrogen. Purdue University scientists are investigating whether mulching Kura clover, a perennial legume, can provide sufficient nitrogen for corn, thus ...

More information: Sailesh Sigdel et al, Can manure application method and timing with cover crops reduce NH 3 and N 2 O gas losses and sustain corn yield? Agronomy Journal (2024). DOI: 10.1002 ...

Steve Hines, a University of Idaho Extension educator specializing in crops, discusses his intercropping study during a field day at the UI Kimberly Research and Extension Center in the summer of ...

More Midwestern farmers are planting off-season crops that help protect the soil and reduce fertilizer use. The next farm bill could make it easier to adopt this practice.

Harvested corn grain is dumped into a grain wagon, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, at a farm near Allerton, Ill. Cover crops top the list of tasks U.S. farmers are told will build healthy soil, help the ...

DES MOINES — Called cover crops, they top the list of tasks U.S. farmers are told will build healthy soil, help the environment and fight climate change.. Yet after years of incentives and ...