Cover crops like oats, rye, and clover are planted between cash crop seasons to reduce erosion, add organic matter, and ...

Explore the pros and cons of various cover crop varieties to know what to pick for your cotton field this winter.

SCIO, Ore. — Fierce competition for acreage in Oregon’s Willamette Valley is limiting the supply of cover crop seed just as demand is increasing. Seed growers haven’t planted as many acres of cover ...

While farmers plant millions acres of plants like rye and clover to boost soil health and crowd out weeds, a cover crop does the same thing in the smallest home garden. With cover crops, a vegetable ...

Conservation methods can help rejuvenate farmland, but the startup cost and uncertain results mean a risk many farmers still aren't willing to take. The University of Missouri Center for Regenerative ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – No one wants to think of harvest’s end as the vegetable garden reaches peak, but now’s the time to plant over-winter cover crops to improve your soil for next season. If you’re not ...

Producers can break even in as little as two years But seed, planting costs challenge economics Landowners can frustrate farmers’ cover crop hopes This is the second part of our four-part series ...

Inside a barn in southwest Missouri, Macauley Kincaid operates a massive contraption of wood and metal affixed with pipes, pulleys and wheels. "This was like state of the art for its time. I mean, ...

An overarching goal for planting cover crops is to produce as much biomass as possible during the growing window. Higher levels of cover crop biomass will reduce soil erosion, inhibit weed growth, and ...

A decade ago, Keith and Brian Berns had heard about cover crops. Discussion of growing rye or radishes to cover and condition soil tended to pop up at the type of winter meetings held in makeshift ...