While farmers plant millions acres of plants like rye and clover to boost soil health and crowd out weeds, a cover crop does the same thing in the smallest home garden. With cover crops, a vegetable ...

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 ...

Put your garden to work over winter by planting a cover crop this fall. Covering the soil with plants that are turned into the soil or smothered and allowed to decompose in spring provides many ...

August 27, 2021 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google When the season changes and your summer plants are gone, your soil begs for some sort of protection from the ...

With milder temperatures and increased rain, fall is a wonderful time for planting and readying next year’s garden. But did you know there are crops you can plant now that will improve the soil for ...

In September, many of us are cleaning up the garden, removing dead plants, and gathering the last of the summer harvest. It's true that it's not as common to have a fall garden, and that's truly a ...

On fields growing corn for grain, one of the most commonly grown commodity crops, 0.6% of the acreage used a fall cover crop before the 2010 crop. By 2016, 5.5% of corn-for-grain acreage had a ...

Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and Governor Kim Reynolds are encouraging Iowa farmers to plant cover crops this fall to improve water quality and save money on next year's crop insurance premiums.

Illinois vegetable growers are entering the toughest six weeks of the year. Despite the seasonal demands, soil health depends on timely planning of a fall cover crop. A fall cover crop is planted in ...

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

SALMON, Idaho — Grazing cover crops after grain is harvested in the same field can pay off even where the growing season is short, according to University of Idaho researchers. A UI Extension trial ...