BROOKINGS — As a challenging row crop planting season finally wraps up for 2019 in South Dakota, many producers are looking to plant cover crops on unplanted acres to provide forage, control weeds, ...

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CORVALLIS, Ore. – No one wants to think of harvest’s end as the vegetable garden reaches peak, but now’s the time to plant over-winter cover crops to improve your soil for next season. If you’re not ...

Cover crops are less popular, but often still profitable, plants that are planted in between harvests of a farmer’s main crop to replenish that soil. There’s a wide variety of plants that are grown as ...

Wheat harvest (and harvest for other short season crops) is full speed ahead. With the early harvest, some of you may be thinking about seeding cover crops. Here I will share information on how to get ...

With summer over, many of us are putting our garden beds to sleep until spring. But if you’re leaving your beds bare, you are missing out on an opportunity to improve your soil and give your garden a ...

Producers can break even in as little as two years But seed, planting costs challenge economics Landowners can frustrate farmers’ cover crop hopes This is the second part of our four-part series ...

Indiana farmer finds that success with cover crops ahead of corn hinges on early establishment and timely termination.

Research shows cover crops are not profitable for most farmers without cost-share payments or livestock making it a challenge to grow the practice, which can have public and agronomic benefits. Editor ...