After a year of drought and weather challenges, some cattle farmers are putting in extra cover crops this fall to ease the forage burden. Here’s the top six cover crops Midwest cattle farmers are ...

A living mulch based on the perennial crop lucerne is allowing Danish farmer and agronomist Frederik Larsen to harvest more ...

Rob Myers of Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education. “Those that actually have experience working with cover crops have become very convinced of the benefits, and that’s something we hear from ...

Some cover crops can sequester nitrogen for the following corn crop, reducing the amount of applied nitrogen. “In our experience, nitrogen is still cheaper to buy,” Ferrie points out.

All Pennsylvania farmers are required to have an Erosion and Sediment Control plan on file and put it into practice, unless ...

Soil scientists have repeatedly shown that cover crops reduce erosion, but an analysis by a team led by Wenjuan Huang, an assistant professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology ...

Traditionally, most home gardeners only plant cover crops in the fall. Spring plantings of cover crops will help improve the yields of selected vegetables. Lettuce and corn require a lot of nitrogen ...

Cover Crop Chart- Common Cover Crops for California (PDF) - Provides cultivation considerations and information about advantages and disadvantages of various cover crops commonly used on California ...