Cover crop usage continues to grow across the country. Last week, the Conservation Technology Information Center announced ...

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 ...

A friend from church asked me, “Is there any cover crop to plant in the spring?” Traditionally, most home gardeners only plant cover crops in the fall. Spring plantings of cover crops will help ...

The bills did not clear a recent committee deadline ... Less than 6% of Illinois farmland uses cover crops The soil in Illinois is famously fertile and much of the land is flat. The soil isn’t highly ...

A field planted with cereal rye, one of the most common cover crops in Iowa. Photo by Ally Larson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons ...

The latest National Cover Crop Survey found that respondents expect cover crop acreage to continue to grow. Dr. Rob Myers ...

The bills did not clear a recent committee deadline ... depositing fertilizers and chemicals into waterways. Cover crops, which include winter wheat, crimson clover, cereal rye, oats or radish ...

The bills did not clear a recent committee deadline ... Less than 6% of Illinois farmland uses cover crops The soil in Illinois is famously fertile and much of the land is flat.