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.

India's annual monsoon rains covered the entire country on Sunday, nine days earlier than is typical, the weather department ...

Sunny, warm beautiful days are upon us, as we watch the crops and children grow we wonder where time has gone. It is hard to believe the time is here to start planning cover crop seeding for this ...

What is the plan for the vegetable garden this fall? Let it go fallow (unplanted)? A better option might be to plant a cover crop.

DES MOINES, Iowa — 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 ...

Planting ‘cover crops’ for the summer. WTVT. Thu, May 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM UTC. David Whitwam with Whitwam Organics joined Good Day to explain the benefits of “cover crops,” including ...

Planting cover crops • Plant cover crops whenever the soil is bare. • In the winter, plant brassicas (mustard, daikon radish and rapeseed), legumes (bell and fava beans, vetch, peas and clover ...

URBANA – Cover crops, with their ability to reduce erosion and promote soil health, are being planted across more Midwestern land than ever. That’s according to new University of Illinois ...

Nov. 8, 2022 — Federal subsidies promote planting cover crops to store carbon in agricultural soils, among other benefits, but the approach as currently practiced can reduce yields in the U.S ...

As climate change threatens farmers’ ability to produce the world ’ s food, researchers and environmental advocates think they have a solution: playing in the dirt. How farming could become ...