Tom Cotter of Austin is the recipient of the 2025 Minnesota Leopold Conservation Award®. The award honors farmers, ranchers, and forestland owners who go above and beyond in their management of soil ...

Tom Cotter of Austin is the recipient of the 2025 Minnesota Leopold Conservation Award.  The award honors farmers, ranchers, ...

While there are several good options for terminating cover crops, it’s important to understand which cover crop termination methods work best for your specific cover cropping system and overall ...

Experts say cost, logistics, and limited state funding could all be contributing to the disadoption of cover crop use. When Levi Lyle was just 6 years old, his father was diagnosed with stage four ...

Earlier this month, significant updates to the Midwest Cover Crops Council’s cover crop selector tool for Minnesota were published. A group of Minnesota researchers, agency staff, seed dealers, and ...

Imagine tending to a task with unfailing devotion only to abandon it at the earliest convenience. That’s the gardening ethic in a nutshell. It’s understandable. The frenzied pace is exhausting. After ...

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) will begin accepting applications for crop insurance premium rebates for cover crop planting at 12 p.m. on December 1, ...

When thinking about the adoption of conservation practices, like cover crops, it is important to note two things. First, adoption rates have ebbs and flows; in other words, adoption does not ...

Farmers are looking for cover crop benefits beyond soil health and water management. Midwestern BioAg CEO Gaji Balakaneshan says in many cases, growers only use cover crops because they’re paid to.

Once cash crops are harvested, some farmers plant winter cover crops. Cash crops are exactly that, crops sold for cash; and cover crops are exactly that, crops used for ground cover. In Teton Valley, ...

Mixing crops and animals on the farm is anything but new. Using crop residues for grazing and manure as fertilizer is a common practice, historically, but agriculture has shifted toward more ...