It’s difficult to overstate the benefits of a cover crop for your garden. In addition to helping replenish the nitrogen in your soil, cover crops also act as habitat for a healthy garden ecosystem and ...

Establishing winter cover crops after or between harvests can be a great way to preserve soil structure, protect against erosion and produce biomass that feeds the soil ecology. However, if you’re in ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Finally, rain has returned to the Valley. Many areas received more than an inch of rain to end our dry spell. The combination of moisture and cool, fall ...

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 acquainted with ...

Hot, dry conditions that helped this year’s Paddock Fire grow to nearly 190,000 acres in southwest Idaho also slowed some cover crops planted near the burn scar to help sustain mule deer and elk that ...

FULTON COUNTY, OHIO, Ohio — October is Harvest Month and you’ve probably seen farmers bringing in their corn and soybeans. However, some farmers are still planting during October. Cover crops have ...

Every fall after the growing season is over, I continue my soil-building regime by planting a winter cover crop. You’ll sometimes hear cover crops used in this type of application referred to as a ...

Newly planted winter camelina seedlings sprout in little green rows at the University of Minnesota field plots on the St. Paul campus. The winter annual plant is one of 15 breeds University ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – No one wants to think of harvest’s end as the vegetable garden reaches peak, but now’s the time to plan for cover crops to be planted in fall. Cover crops, also called green manure, ...

UW Extension Sauk County, Farmers of the Lemonweir Valley & Producers of Lake Redstone present Winter Camelina Cover Crop Field Tour from 3-5 p.m. Wednesday at N3097 Highway K, Mauston. Discover a ...

BEARDSLEY, Minn. - Farmers Anne and Peter Schwagerl pull over the pickup truck and let out their dog, Scout, to run up and down the gravel road. "He's a bird dog who doesn't hunt," Peter Schwagerl ...