When the Southern Cover Crops Council held its annual conference recently in Baton Rouge, I was fortunate to sit in on panel discussions with farmers and specialty crops (vegetables, fruits, nuts and ...

Left: examples of cover crops with radishes, oats, and buckwheat. Right: strip-till with soybeans growing in a cereal rye cover. (Photos from Chase Brown) After the deadly I-55 dirt storm, an Illinois ...

Cover crops are plants that are planted to cover the soil to keep it in place and improve soil health. They can be intercropped with other crops or planted after harvesting. The crops are mainly grown ...

This is a story about cover crops, but first a little history lesson for those of you who are not old enough to remember what they are (which is most of us at this point). The Great Dust Bowl of the ...

Cover crops play an important role in protecting the soil and water when cash crops like corn or soybean are not actively growing. The National Conservation Service promoted the use of cover crops ...

Your cotton fields might benefit from several kinds of winter cover crops which can control erosion, manage nutrients, and improve soil health, including a crimson clover cover crop or even a vetch ...

California’s statewide Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, established in 2014, requires local groundwater sustainability agencies to adopt sustainability plans for high and medium priority basins ...

Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil carbon from erosion, a factor that's underestimated in considering the carbon ...

Over the past few months, following the devasting storms and floods that have affected so many Iowans, I have traveled to communities, visiting farms, businesses and homes that have endured the worst ...