CLARA CITY, MINN. - Winter can come hard to the Minnesota prairie, but never so early that cover crops cannot be used to improve and protect the soil. "We do have the potential here,'' said Holly ...

Beginning in the 2017 growing season, The Iowa Nutrient Research & Education Council (INREC) has worked over the past six years with Iowa State University and local ag retailers to study the progress ...

PESOTUM, Ill. (WCIA) — Senator Dick Durbin is advocating for more programs that will give farmers an incentive to start planting cover crops. It’s a push for more conservation programs that’ll ...

These flights evaluate conventional management with no-till cover crop management. The field on the left uses cereal rye as a cover with 30-inch soybean rows planted into the cover. The field on the ...

Healthy soil leads to healthier crops, lower input costs and more sustainable success. More farmers are discovering cost savings and benefits of building healthy, living soils. With practices like ...

The University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Cooperative Extension will host a healthy soils, cover crops and conservation in the Sacramento Valley field day in coordination with the ...

New research from Iowa State University, that builds on research released last fall, finds that only 6.6 percent of cover ...

The NRCS conservation practice standard – Cover Crop (340) supports using grasses, legumes, and forbs for seasonal vegetative cover. Cover crops can provide many soil health benefits such as reduced ...

More farmers are trying out conservation tillage and cover crops, but not all of them choose to permanently adopt the practices, a new Economic Research Service report has found. The analysis of USDA ...

BRANDON, Iowa - After Dick Sloan graduated from Iowa State University with a biology degree, his first job took him to an Eastern city. "But living in a big city was not for me," he said. He returned ...

According to the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy, an initiative aimed at reducing nitrogen and phosphorus runoff into Iowa’s ...