Red clover can fix nitrogen, suppress weeds and improve crop yields. Based on test plot research in Illinois, a good stand of red clover can provide between 50 and 100 pounds of nitrogen per acre.

Yet when it was time to pull the cover crop and plant vegetables in the healthy soil in mid-May, my husband was on a month-long work trip overseas. Planting that raised bed was not a priority.

Summerside-based Linkletter Farms planted crimson clover as a cover crop, to hold potato field soil in place over the winter. Co-owner Mark MacEwen didn't expect it to survive the icy weather the way ...

A recent field day held by the Driftless Area Ag Alliance focused on ways to get more digestible fiber per acre.

M INOT, N.D. (KMOT) - Minot State and volunteer partners planted red clover as a cover crop around the former site of Erik Ramstad Middle School. It’s part of their Plum River Native Prairie ...

Moths are seeking nectar at night, long after bees have turned in for the evening. Jerzy Strzelecki via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 3.0 Farmers around the world plant red clover in their fields ...

You can use lower rates for cover crop intentions. In the spring wheat can be killed with a roller crimper at the soft-dough stage or later, or sprayed with a herbicide.

Introduced to Vermont by European settlers, red clover has become an essential part of the state’s landscape and identity. Designated as the state flower in 1894, this pinkish-purple bloom symbolizes ...

Cover Crop. Additional vegetation planted in vineyards to cover the ground and better control erosion, soil quality, disease and other agricultural factors. Examples of cover crops include sorghum, ...

Johnson, who farms near Breckenridge in the southern Red River Valley of Minnesota, spent part of Sept. 1 interseeding a cover crop mixture between the rows of one of his sugarbeet fields.

Last fall, Summerside-based Linkletter Farms planted crimson clover as a cover crop, to hold potato field soil in place over the winter. Co-owner Mark MacEwen didn't expect it to survive the icy ...