In a 2015 strip trial on a central Illinois farm, three cover crop mixtures were planted behind a wheat crop, next to the grower’s normal double-crop soybeans. In 2016, corn planted behind the ...

A growing number of farmers plant cover crops such as cereal rye after harvesting their corn or soybeans to cover the soil ...

Interseeding cover crops can be an effective and timely way to establish cover crops in cornfields here in Minnesota.

Cover Crop Field Day and the Regional Conservation ... Announcer] "Farm Connections," made possible in part by: Minnesota Corn, working to identify and promote opportunities for corn growers ...

In most fields, corn residue remaining after grain harvest is incorporated into the soil with tillage or is left on the soil surface. But corn residue is also becoming a commodity. It’s ...

The map below was created a few days after spring termination of the cover crop. Treatments consisted of several different cover crop mixtures, as well as no cover. The field was then planted to corn ...

they report a new strategy that achieves multiple conservation goals while maintaining corn yield: injecting manure into a ...

Free soil-health workshops in person and online are planned for February to cover no-till, reduced tillage, cover crops in corn, grazing cattle and more. In Stewartville, the Olmsted Soil & Water ...