Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MILLERSBURG — Farmers, livestock producers and gardeners interested in improving soil health and learning more about cover crop ...

Winter can be brutal on your garden soil. What was once rich, lively earth can turn into a hard, lifeless slab by the time spring arrives. But there’s hope—and it comes in the form of a cover crop ...

While corn and soybean farmers deal with narrow margins, Oregon forage growers battle depressed grass seed values amid ...

March 20, Cover Crops Field Day, Zanesville Aug. 5, Soil Health, Allen Dean Farm, Bryan Aug. 18, From Dirt to Healthy Soil, Lima Sept. (TBA), MVP Dairy, Celina Dec. 2, Ohio No-till Conf., Plain City ...

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 ...

More than 70 farmers and agencies attended a round table to discuss farming methods that aim to provide a more sustainable future for crops grown in the Salinas Valley. According to the United States ...

Aaron Lehman is the president of the Iowa Farmers Union and is a fifth-generation farmer from central Iowa. Iowa is a nationwide leader in a conservation practice known as cover cropping. For nearly a ...

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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 ...

Establishing winter cover crops after or between harvests can be a great way to preserve soil structure, protect against erosion and produce biomass that feeds the soil ecology. However, if you’re in ...

Most Iowa farmers don’t use cover crops, according to new research from Iowa State University, despite the fact that it is a ...