With cool-season vegetable crops going into the ground, many gardeners who ventured into cover cropping last autumn may ask a familiar question: What do I do now? Their crops have fulfilled their ...

For farmers trying to Flip their Soil and improve soil health one simple thing they can do this fall is plant cereal rye as a cover crop and plant soybeans into that stand. Soil health experts say ...

So, how can companion planting be incorporated into our gardens? Improving soil. While some may not consider them companion plants, cover crops are a great way to help improve soils, benefiting ...

Nitrate, pesticides, metals and plastic agricultural soils often contain pollutants. But are there sustainable and ...

Fruechte said that cover crops are being used more in mainstream agriculture and their use has moved eastward across the United States into southern Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. In the ...

Interest in cover crops continues to grow alongside the emphasis on nutrient loss reduction. The last U.S. Census of Agriculture, released every five years, reported 18 million acres of cover ...