Advocates of conservation practices and cover crops are looking to speed up the development of new crop insurance products by ...

Pick the most effective cover crop termination strategy. Learn which method and timing will best support soil health, residue ...

This is the third part of a four-part series examining the promise of cover crops, the potential for them to meet the nation’s environmental goals that rest on their success, and the possible pitfalls ...

Keith Berns, co-founder of Green Cover weighs in with practical advice including three things for cover crop success, termination timing and water use.

To gain a better grasp on the growing interest in cover crops, the National Cover Crop Survey, in its seventh year, checked in with growers from across the country. Of the 795 respondents, 561 said ...

Farming efforts produce a wide range of crops, but there are different types of farming that dictate how it is carried out and whether there is money to be made for both farmers and investors. Though ...

LA CROSSE, Wis. — Jeffrey Moyer told a nearly full audience at his recent Organic Farming Conference workshop to think of their farms in a new way: Focus first on cover crops, then cash crops. "Cover ...

In states along the Mississippi River, Wisconsin has the highest percentage of its cropland using cover crops, nearly 8%.

Our favorite morsel from the blogs. At Grist, Tom Philpott reveals how the economics of urban farms can be trickier than navigating a city lot laced with lead. If you're laboring under some hippie ...

XIAOMANSAN VILLAGE, China -- Roosters break into a dissonant chorus at dawn as fog clings to the bamboo grove encircling a cluster of wooden houses. Villagers apply fresh logs to fires, boiling water ...

On U. S. farms the last bushel of wheat had been threshed, the last shock of corn stacked, the last apple picked, the last potato dug last week when the Department of Agriculture issued its final ...

David “Kip” Ritchey, 31, and Angelique Taylor, 27, are standing in their one-acre farm off of a busy highway just outside of Tallahassee. Their muddied rubber boots are surrounded by rows of budding ...