I am often asked this question: "Is using only cereal rye as a cover crop enough or do I need more diversity?" My answer is, "It depends on what you are trying to do with that cover crop." One goal of ...

How should you choose cover crops? First, determine a goal for using the cover crops. What do you want to do? Once the goal is identified, then it's time to think about the current crop and next crop ...

U. of I. natural resources and environmental sciences researcher Lowell Gentry and his colleagues found that an intensive three-year crop-rotation system reduced nitrate pollution runoff by 50% ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Yield increases of cereals following legumes in rotation have been previously reported for West Africa, but little progress has been made to ...

For thousands of years, humans in places all around the world, including ancient Rome, have used an ancient gardening ...

A fundamental problem with cereal crops—rice, wheat, corn—is that they, unlike some other crops, need a whole lot of fertilizer to grow properly. Fertilizer has serious environmental and energy ...