The problem of “not seeing the forest for the trees” may have a solution with 3-D technology being used to estimate biomass ...

A soybean researcher says cover crops can be another mode of action for controlling weeds, but it will take a lot of biomass. Shawn Conley says University of Wisconsin research through weed scientist ...

The second chart shows what Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie calls the opportunity cost — the difference in net profit over the two years that resulted from planting the cover crops and ...

I-COVER was established by a United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resource Conservation Service Regional ...

Funding from the Farming for Water project has helped to increase the area of cover crops planted in the Castledockerell ...

The director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture says farmers in three states can now pre-enroll for a new cover crop ...

Program participants receive a $5 per acre rebate credit to their crop insurance premium for acres planted with cover crops, then subsequently planted to an insurable cash crop. All acres are verified ...

Farmers say climate change, which has brought greater uncertainty in rainfall and made excessive rainfall a fairly frequent ...

Farmers manage crops, maintain equipment, and market products, often while balancing a second job and family demands. Adding a dispute with a crop insurance company is the last thing farmers need.

After a year of drought and weather challenges, some cattle farmers are putting in extra cover crops this fall to ease the forage burden. Here’s the top six cover crops Midwest cattle farmers are ...