As the combines start rolling across the country farmers are focused on taking the crops off the land. However, it’s a great time for farmers to also be thinking about planting cover crops to help ...

Research on 60-inch corn rows with cover crops between them is geared toward the cattle producer looking to graze after corn harvest. Cover crop grows up between 60-inch rows of corn at the Central ...

Yichao Rui, assistant professor of agronomy, inspects soil in a cornfield at Purdue University's Water Quality Field Station. Rui leads a study investigating the viability of using kura clover as a ...

Macauley Kincaid reconnects a hood to part of his mill Aug. 7 at his family farm in Jasper, Mo. Kincaid is the second generation in his family to farm crops for seed production. He still uses the same ...

No one knows who first invented the idea of using cover crops to protect soil in agriculture fields, but by 6000 B.C. farmers ...

Farms come in all shapes and sizes, from a thousand-acre field planted in corn to a quarter-acre parcel supporting thirty different types of vegetables. One of the key differences between these two ...

Farmers planting cover crops for better water filtration and weed suppression also have to factor in the challenges, which include time, cost, risk and labor. Doug Adams, who farms in north-central ...

Stored hay can be a livestock producer’s best insurance, says University of Missouri Extension plant science specialist Caleb O’Neal, who is also a cattle producer. It provides flexibility for ...

Cattle graze on a mix of plants that make up a cover crop on a field at the Rodale Institute in Marion on Oct. 3. The mix of plants are clover, radishes, Japanese millet and oats. According to a new ...