After a year of drought and weather challenges, some cattle farmers are putting in extra cover crops this fall to ease the forage burden. Here’s the top six cover crops Midwest cattle farmers are ...

A new study published in the journal Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment shines a spotlight on a promising solution: using cover crops as “living mulch.” The research, led by scientists from the ...

Cereal Rye for Cover Cropping in Organic Farming (from “Managing Cover Crops Profitably”) - Rye is the best cool-season cereal cover for absorbing unused soil N. It has no taproot, but rye’s ...

COVER CROP ROI Ferrie’s 10 years of cover crop strip trials usually produced negative ROIs. “Even if we didn’t lose yield, there was no additional yield to offset the cost of the cover crop ...

On the other hand, you could use plants to do the heavy lifting. Ground covers and cover crops sound similar, but have ...

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Grass cover crops, on the other hand, helped maintain soil carbon and total nitrogen levels while boosting overall microbial biomass, particularly among bacterial groups. The most promising ...

Fleece and crop covers promise to trap the sun's warmth and keep off pests from your young veg so you can get off to an early start in spring. They can also be used to wrap around tender plants that ...

A NEW trial at the East Lothian Monitor Farm is investigating the best method of establishing a cover crop. Establishing cover crops in Scotland can be difficult due to the short drilling window of ...

On the one side, cover crops ensure several ecosystem services, while on the other side, allelopathy, the chemical interference between organisms through the release of secondary metabolites into the ...