When it comes to forage and cover crops, winter rye offers rock-star versatility ... Soil stays put – As a ground cover, rye effectively holds soil in place and reduces wind and water erosion.

Cover crops are plants specifically grown ... soil health during the winter months. Austrian winter peas establish quickly, providing dense ground cover that protects the soil from erosion and ...

For fruit tree orchards, under-tree sprinklers provide valuable frost protection by applying water directly to the root zone ...

They may shade the ground, thus reducing temperature fluctuation and the weed seed germination ... These tests showed less effect than those where a winter hardy crop was killed chemically in the ...

By having lucerne as an understorey in a rotation dominated by winter cereals ... since found it to be more reliable than the use of cover crops and also helps to improve water retention, as ...

It was the winter that wasn’t for some areas of the ... low lands that are filled with pastures and normally planted to crops, we’re going lose that, or we’re going to have to wait a long ...

SINGAPORE: Chicago wheat futures gained some ground on Tuesday ... The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) rated 45% of the winter wheat crops to be in good or excellent condition, down from ...

Cover crops after the main crop has been harvested from a field (Emily Beament/PA) A shift away from the familiar sight of bare winter fields can help improve soils and boost wildlife, a study ...

for example by growing cover crops on land over winter, had benefits for soil health and nature. But there was less evidence from the UK-focused study around benefits from “no-till” or ...