If you’re wondering which cover crop might be best for your farm, you’ll want to check out the Cover Crop Chart from the USDA’s Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory. The interactive PDF outlines ...

While most crops shut down for winter, this tough cold-season cover crop keeps digging deep and improving the ground until ...

Different cover crop application methods and timing of those applications were evaluated at Ivy Tech in Lafayette, IN. Cover crop treatments are highlighted from right to left which corresponds to ...

For an Earth-friendly garden, keep a succession of plants in the soil by planting cover crops. These are plants grown to improve the soil rather than for harvest. I prepare the soil for the next year ...

Why let your fields lie fallow until April when you can take advantage of the coming slow months to improve soil quality? Though a couple cover crops, like white clover and millet, require spring or ...

MANDAN, N.D. - The colorful chart behind Holly Johnson looks a little like the periodic table of elements, only instead of elements, there are carefully arranged columns of crops. The chart has been ...

When Henning sits down with a producer to discuss cover crops, he begins by asking questions about the reasons a producer wants to grow cover crops, along with what kind of problems he is having that ...

In this story, we explained how you farm in three environments. The physical environment is each field’s individual properties. The natural environment is climate and weather. The human environment ...

When Henning sits down with a producer to discuss cover crops, he begins by asking questions about the reasons a producer wants to grow cover crops, along with what kind of problems he is having that ...

MANDAN, N.D.-The colorful chart behind Holly Johnson looks a little like the periodic table of elements, only instead of elements, there are carefully arranged columns of crops. The chart has been in ...