With cool-season vegetable crops going into the ground, many gardeners who ... The risk of this is exceptionally high with grassy cover crops — such as winter rye, annual rye, wheat, barley ...

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 ...

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.

Farmers in Door and Kewaunee counties are getting closer to spending long days in their fields again as the weather outlook ...

common chickweed cannot be overlooked as a winter annual that can harbor SCN. When scouting your soybean field, look for plants that grow low to the ground with branching stems. Stems have rows of ...

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 ...

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 ...

They may shade the ground, thus reducing temperature fluctuation and ... than those where a winter hardy crop was killed chemically in the spring. Winter-killed cover crops form a mulch in the spring ...