Regenerative agriculture methods, such as cover crops, are one way farmers try to improve the health of their overworked soil ...

Cover Crop Conversations: Farmer-to-Farmer Insights Across Illinois is back for another exclusive session with questions and ...

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 ...

No one knows who first invented the idea of using cover crops to protect soil in agriculture fields, but by 6000 B.C. farmers ...

Cereal-rye cover crops are known for their tremendous ability to scavenge from the soil two of the most important resources for plants – moisture and nutrients, namely nitrogen. That's good, says the ...

Legume cover crops were effective only during the early season with a 47 percent reduction, while brassicas did not affect pigweed density. Cover crop residues remaining on the soil surface were more ...

What’s cover cropping all about, anyway? As with many eco initiatives, what was old is new again: Cover crops (or fallow season plantings; see more below) were first used during the Roman Empire as a ...

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

A combine harvests corn, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, at a farm near Allerton, Ill. Cover crops top the list of tasks U.S. farmers are told will build healthy soil, help the environment and fight climate ...

Farmers across South Florida are scrambling to protect valuable crops against a weekend freeze that hasn't happened in years.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Called cover crops, they top the list of tasks U.S. farmers are told will build healthy soil, help the environment and fight climate change. Yet after years of incentives and ...