We are in the process of supplying planting materials to all those who had cleared the area intended for rubber planting and had completed the initial steps like lining and pitting. We are nearly half ...

John Farrington initially began growing six-species cover crops in 2018 to improve soil structure and water holding capacity by increasing soil organic matter. His use has now morphed into ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — More than 650 farm advisers from across the U.S. participated in a survey on cover crops, shining light on how — and how frequently — they advise growers on cover crops.

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 ...

Soil scientists have repeatedly shown that cover crops reduce erosion, but an analysis by a team led by Wenjuan Huang, an assistant professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology, is the first ...

Gudas, who lives at 9765 W. 100S, Kewanna, said he’s used cover crops to improve his fields’ soil since around 2011. “Probably 60% of the acres that I have (I use cover crops),” he said. That’s 700 or ...

Topography – steeper slopes, especially – correlated strongest with cover crops’ ability to reduce soil carbon erosion. Applying that data to a machine-learning generated map of global farmland, Huang ...

Interest in cover crops continues to grow alongside the emphasis on nutrient loss reduction. The last U.S. Census of Agriculture, released every five years, reported 18 million acres of cover crops ...

Fisher says that bio strip-till is the next level of cover crops. “As we get better at this and more prescriptive with it and can use precision planting the way John’s plot data shows, even in a ...

The use of leguminous plants as cover crops in production systems allows for the accumulation of organic matter and fixation of atmospheric N through the symbiotic association with bacteria of the ...

He plants cover crops on 100% of the 3,000 acres he farms with a modified air drill and he has enrolled in the ADM re:generations program where he receives payments for various production practices.

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