Planting cover crops can lessen the risk of yield drag on second-year soybeans, and planting them after soybean harvest gives you an opportunity to plant [...]

More and more growers are interested in planting cover crops to improve their soil and increase soil productivity. It is also a good tool [...]

Using cover crops in between corn and soybean crop production in the Midwest could significantly reduce nitrate load runoff via subsurface drains, according to [...]

Winter wheat acres across WI have declined over the past few years due to high corn and soybean prices and late grain harvests. As [...]

Properly terminating a cover crop in the spring is as important as properly establishing a cover crop in the fall.  Annual ryegrass seems to [...]

There is a lot of interest in planting cover crops. Obviously, the best time to plant them is after wheat, vegetables or silage because [...]

I recently have been pondering how the use of cover crops and other conservation practices on Illinois farms is likely to be impacted by [...]

Adding cover crops to their crop rotation can help growers improve their soil health, explained David Hammer, Ph.D., professor of Soil Genesis, University of [...]

This article originally appeared on Iowa State University’s Integrated Crop Management News and has been reposted with permission. There is an increased interest in the use [...]