Lupin and mustard are good cover crops to plant ... even on a warm winter day, so having a lid you can adjust to release the heat is important. Having visited some lovely gardens in Europe ...

Here’s the top six cover crops Midwest cattle farmers are using to stretch fall and winter grazing. Cereal rye is one of the top cover crops used in the U.S. for both agronomic and grazing. It is ...

Whether you are a pro-grower or a novice gardener knowing the best mulch for vegetable gardens is essential to help your crops meet their ... to provide overwintering cover for hedgehogs, frogs ...

Incorporation of Cover Crops for Forage Supply One way to incorporate cover crops into a grain or livestock production system is to seed winter rye after corn silage has been completed. Another ...

Seed starting and garden planning activities are well under way. One gardening technique that many gardeners incorporate into their gardens is companion planting. What is companion planting? There isn ...

A good mulch is a valuable addition to any vegetable garden. First, mulches conserve soil moisture ... Natural mulches are materials like grass clippings and leaves, which add organic matter to the ...

One gardening technique that many gardeners incorporate into their gardens is companion planting ... In addition to improving soil, cover crops can also be used to suppress weeds. Cover crops like ...

The fencing and labor costs of grazing cover crops can be traded for the manure hauling and forage harvesting costs of housing cattle in a drylot. For example, using winter grazing of stockpiled grass ...

Wisconsin dairy farmer Josh Hiemstra has been successfully using cover crops as a feed source for his cows for 15 years ... Hiemstra began feeding covers in 2009 when he fed winter rye to provide ...

Despite bright blue skies (when it isn’t raining), warmer afternoons and daylight into the evenings, when it comes to vegetables, it’s winter ... with another vegetable — asparagus in ...

The first application of fertiliser nitrogen should be applied to winter barley crops across the country now. This was view firmly expressed by Teagasc tillage specialist, Shay Phelan, at a recent ...