Rather, you'll plant a cover crop in the spring or fall when and if the ground is bare. In some instances, with specific crops like corn, you can plant it at the same time to reduce weeds.

Sow the four best summer cover crops for fast-growing, weed-suppressing soil builders in any patch possible, even during your prime gardening season.

Cover crop management: trade-off between carbon benefits, crop yield University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment Journal ...

Make hay when the sun shines. That’s a saying that means exactly what is says. “When it’s go time, it’s all hands on deck,” ...

Cover crops benefit farms by adding soil organic carbon (carbon from organic matter in soils), improving soil health, reducing soil erosion, cycling nutrients and converting nitrogen to forms ...

Legume cover crops with no tilling provided higher crop yields but close to 70% lower climate benefits. Reduced yields were found to be most likely in drier climates where cover crops compete for ...

The Freeland family has created their own spin on a fall classic, all with the goal of teaching the community about the important of cover crops and soil health. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Read Today's Paper ...

The winter-planted cover crop has sustainable possibilities in the future, but first, farmers need to know if the muscular, intermediate oilseed can actually grow during Minnesota’s notoriously ...

The cover crop did very well in the heavier/silty soils on our top field, but not as well on the lighter/silty sand soil located in our lower field," Alvarez said.

Winemaker Meghan Zobeck shares how cover crops benefit vineyards—and how each vineyard's cover crop is different. Burgess Cellars winemaker Meghan Zobeck gives us a look at three different vineyards ...

Method of establishment and machine choice vary widely as visitors to the Crops and Cover Crop Cultivations event held on June 21 will have seen, but the most important thing is to ensure that ...