In short-season regions, the window between harvest and first frost is tight. That makes it critical to know when to plant a ...

At this growth stage, corn is usually short enough to plant cover crops with a grain drill or air seeder. This allows for good seed-to-soil contact and good rates of germination and emergence.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture promotes cover crops through several programs, starting with $44 million in payments during the 2023 fiscal year from the agency’s Natural Resources ...

When and how to terminate a cover crop in spring varies by farmer, but the practice usually has at least one common denominator – glyphosate – and it’s in short supply across much of the ...

Enter entrepreneurs like Mike DeCamp, CEO of CoverCress Inc., a company that developed a variety of pennycress, a weed in other parts of the world, that could double as a cover crop and a ...

Dana Cronin: Instead of leaving his field alone in the winter, Lay uses the rye to help fight climate change. And these 75 acres of cover crops are keeping a lot of carbon out of the atmosphere.

BY KATIE NICHOLS ALABAMA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SYSTEM Dec 16, 2020 Dec 16, 2020Updated Jan 20, 2022 0 ...

The work comes out of a need to develop crops to cover what some researchers call “the brown period,” the gap between when crops are harvested in the fall and new crops are planted in the spring.

Within a few short years, the Hamiltons had dozens of requests from farmers around the region asking them to seed cover crops using the same planes they use to spread fertilizers and do spraying.