By James Hoorman, Hoorman Soil Health Services, and Dusty Sonnenberg, CCA, Field Leader a project of the Ohio Soybean Council ...

After small grains, we typically try to get our cover crop mixes seeded by August 15. That date has blown by us and it is now mid-September with some wheat still being harvested. This late harvest has ...

Research shows cover crops are not profitable for most farmers without cost-share payments or livestock making it a challenge to grow the practice, which can have public and agronomic benefits. Editor ...

Most fall-planted cover crops will have higher growth than last year, even though 2018 corn and soybean harvests extended a few weeks longer than normal. Among the mix of cover crops selected, cereal ...

As we head into the end of the growing and gardening season, it’s important to show your garden some love after it has provided all season long for you and yours. My preferred cover crop mix is oats, ...

Ross Evelsizer (left), natural resource projects director with Northeast Iowa Resource Conservation and Development, and Mike Bretz (right), a regenerative farmer in Buchanan County, Iowa, stand in a ...

GOSHEN — Purdue Extension Elkhart County is offering free cover crop seed while supplies last. Small packets have been made up to seed roughly a 100 square foot area (10 feet by 10 feet, for example, ...

Rye has played an important role throughout history, Laura Valli says . “Humans never deliberately chose to cultivate it, but it first occurred in fields of wheat and barley in what’s contemporary ...