Buckwheat is good for the soil. It is known as a cover crop. These are plants used to cover the soil rather than for the purpose of being harvested.

The New Mexico Department of Agriculture and the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission have partnered on a cover crop initiative in the Lower Rio Grande valley, advancing long-term efforts to ...

Ames, Iowa — To support cover crop adoption in the Midwest, Practical Farmers of Iowa and the Iowa Soybean Association are excited to offer their Cover Crop Business Accelerator (CCBA) program. Now in ...

More farmers are trying out conservation tillage and cover crops, but not all of them choose to permanently adopt the practices, a new Economic Research Service report has found. The analysis of ...

The Wisconsin Cover Crop Data Network team has developed and is currently testing a new cover crop scenario tool. This innovative resource leverages farmer-provided data from across the state to ...

You can save yourself a lot of hard work by growing a beautiful flowering cover crop that will block out those pesky weeds, and offer some benefits to your soil at the same time.

crop seeds 2,500-year-old crop seeds discovered Archaeologists have found crop seeds as old as 2,500 years in Bogura's Mahasthangarh.

Join Precision Conservation Management, Clark County Farm Bureau, and Extension for an engaging cover crop program featuring: - Dane Hunter, Commercial Agriculture Specialist - Jacob Gard, Precision ...