What is your goal with cover crops on your farm?
In recent years, interest in adding cover crops has increased and potential benefits have become more widely recognized.
In recent years, interest in adding cover crops has increased and potential benefits have become more widely recognized.
‘Parks and Recreation’ star Nick Offerman has been chosen by the Natural Resource Defense Council for a new soil campaign centered on cover crops.
Studies suggest using winter rye cover crops between corn and soybeans prevents nitrate losses, sequester carbon, and provides renewable natural gas.
A new national cover crop survey report released today shows that financial incentives play a major role in persuading farmers to adopt cover crops.
Cover crops expert Jenna Langley Blue shares her knowledge as part of the ultimate guide to cover crops and how they relate to soil health.
If Midwest farms adopted low-intensity tilling practices or stopped tilling, erosion of critical topsoil could decrease by 95 percent in the next 100 years.
Farmers adopting cover crops through Farmers for Soil Health can look forward to enhanced technical assistance through a new grant.
Study suggests that cover crops — or crops grown in between cash-crop seasons — help keep Midwestern soil drier and healthier, prevent flooding losses.
Truterra LLC, the sustainability business of Land O’Lakes, Inc., and the Soil and Water Conservation Society announced preliminary findings from the first of a three-year on-farm trial to evaluate the field-scale benefits of cover crops to build soil health, reduce erosion, sequester carbon, and improve return on investment. Initial findings across more than 2,400 acres […]
Cover crops, with their ability to reduce erosion and promote soil health, are being planted across more Midwestern land than ever. In recent years, this strategy has become a valuable trend with the added benefit of increasing crop productivity. So, it’s no surprise that new University of Illinois research shows cover crop adoption reached 7.2 percent in 2021, up from just 1.8 percent a decade prior.