If you're looking for a way to give your garden a boost during the off-season, planting cover crops is one of the best things you can do. It's such a satisfying process-watching your soil ...

However, when planting green with non-legume cover crops, you will likely need to apply a higher-than-standard upfront nitrogen rate to help compensate for nitrate tie-up and cooler, slower-to ...

More Midwestern farmers are planting off-season crops that help protect the soil and reduce fertilizer use. The next farm bill could make it easier to adopt this practice.

India's annual monsoon rains covered the entire country on Sunday, nine days earlier than is typical, the weather department ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Called cover crops, they top the list of tasks U.S. farmers are told will build healthy soil, help the environment and fight climate change. Yet after years of incentives and ...

Planting cover crops • Plant cover crops whenever the soil is bare. • In the winter, plant brassicas (mustard, daikon radish and rapeseed), legumes (bell and fava beans, vetch, peas and clover ...

“No-till reduces soil erosion 80-90%,” DeLong said. Water health can be helped by edge-of-the-field practices such as ...

Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil carbon from erosion, a factor that’s underestimated in considering the ...

The Sussex Conservation District is now accepting applications for its cover crop cost share and referral programs. The cover crop program supports farmers in planting winter crops that improve soil ...

A field planted with cereal rye, one of the most common cover crops in Iowa. Photo by Ally Larson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons ...