Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil ...

An assessment of “regenerative agriculture” – which focuses on improving soils, producing food and increasing farmland ...

In the early 2010s, Stierwalt started experimenting with cover crops, which can help hold soil in place and reduce runoff ...

A free, online tool that helps farmers evaluate cover crop species based on things like county, production goals and drainage ...

Unverferth Manufacturing Co., Inc. announces the addition of a mounted cover crop seeder for its Rolling Harrow soil conditioner to provide time-saving, one-pass planting of these profit-enhancing ...

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 ...

Planting dry beans into spring cover crops could be a measure to protect young plants from damaging weather conditions like ...

The Midwest Cover Crop Council’s cover crop decision tool was recently updated for Iowa. This winter a group of Iowan ...

Cover crop growth is lagging in parts of the Upper Midwest. Southern Minnesota farmer Rochelle Krusemark says soil conditions remain cool and dry. “Unfortunately, with everything that was seeded last ...

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 ...