In 2016, corn planted behind the three cover crops matched or outyielded corn that followed the double-cropped soybeans. The second chart shows what Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie calls ...

Soil-health farmers and researchers will lead a free workshop focused on incorporating cover crops into a farming operation and seeking to diverse crops this month at Riverland Community College in ...

Annual ryegrass is fast-growing and easier to establish by broadcast seeding than other grass cover crops. It needs to be planted earlier than cereal rye to get good fall cover. Ryegrass is conducive ...

Genesee County Soil and Water Conservation District District Field Manager, Jared Elliott, left, presented the 2024 ...

Ferrie details six agronomic factors to keep in mind, if you’re new to growing continuous corn, that can help you achieve ...

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 ...

A nine-year study comparing a typical two-year corn and soybean rotation with a more intensive three-year rotation involving ...

Doug Rebout, who was elected last month as the president of the Wisconsin Soybean Association, agreed that the EU’s proposed ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Trump’s fertilizer tariffs could disrupt US crop production, ...

Researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shenyang have found that adding cover crops to corn crops boosts nutrients in the soil and will help protect ...

Vance Johnson and Andy Linder share the impact that using conservation practices has made on their farm economics.