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.

An overarching goal for planting cover crops is to produce as much biomass as possible during the growing window. Higher levels of cover crop biomass will reduce soil erosion, inhibit weed growth ...

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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

One such incentive, the USDA Pandemic Cover Crop Program, reduces crop insurance premiums by $5 per acre for farmers who invested in cover crops. Advertisement.

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 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.

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 ...

News; Weird News; Viral 'My gym told me to cover up - but I've been wearing the same crop tops for 3 years' A woman has been left gobsmacked after she was dress coded by staff at her gym - even ...