If you looked closely at my farm earlier this fall, you could see the hillsides starting to green up. Sprouts of rye were emerging through the corn stover that was left in the field after harvest, ...

‘Prosperity,’ customer pressure help stir cover crop interest The ‘yo-yo’ principle of managing cover crops Is USDA overpromoting cover crops? This is the first part of a four-part series examining ...

Cover crops are extremely important soil food web tools. Anyone listening to the “Teaming With Microbes” podcasts knows I am into them. Depending on which you use, these plants are capable of breaking ...

When the Southern Cover Crops Council held its annual conference recently in Baton Rouge, I was fortunate to sit in on panel discussions with farmers and specialty crops (vegetables, fruits, nuts and ...

CAPUTA, S.D. — We’ve all heard of a corn maze, but one farm in western South Dakota has added their own twist to a fall-time tradition. At Dry Creek Farm and Ranch in Caputa, South Dakota, the ...

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service are collaborating on a series of cover crop fact sheets for Iowa ...

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 ...

IT’S A FAMILIAR CONCEPT IN THE AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY, BUT A NEW TECHNIQUE IS CHANGING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF HOW IT’S USED IN THIS FORECASTING. OUR FUTURE REPORT, KETV, NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S KALE SEARCY ...