Researchers have developed a new model that can suggest the optimal conditions for farmers to plant cover crops, or crops grown in between cash-crop seasons, to help ensure long-term cash-crop ...

Corn Shredding Days at the Dwain Gerken Farm. Crop insurance expert Paul Tangen. Cover crops in MN.

Cover crops, with their ability to reduce erosion and promote soil health, are being planted across more Midwestern land than ever. That’s according to new University of Illinois research ...

High tunnels, which are unheated greenhouse-like structures, are increasingly used in organic farming to extend growing seasons and protect crops from adverse weather conditions.

While perennials may not be everyone's first choice in cover crops, they can help improve your soil health quickly.

Cover crops are grown before spring crops in a rotation that alternates winter and spring crops. “That way we’re growing six crops in four years – four harvested, two grazed.

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 ...

Planting cover crops in fields can help not only rejuvenate soil health but also improve water quality, as recommended by the Hawk Creek Watershed Project in Olivia.

The modified climate inside the high tunnels also creates the opportunity to produce crops that can’t normally grow if unprotected, diversifying the farming system.

10 Tips to Shorten Your Cover Crop Learning Curve Farm Journal Test Plot research proves practices that reduce soil disturbance and sequester carbon perform best in a vertical farming system, as ...

David Brandt, a central Ohio farmer and international leader in the conservationist movement, died at the age of 76 after a car crash.

Researchers have developed a new model that can suggest the optimal conditions for farmers to plant cover crops, or crops grown in between cash-crop seasons, to help ensure long-term cash-crop ...