Results from a new survey reveal that between 25% and 50% of corn and soybean growers adopt the use of cover crops when their ...

The crop cover mix increased nitrogen more than cereal rye alone. “It’s like an organic fertilizer, basically,” Blesh said. Because legumes increase nitrogen in soil, there’s less need for ...

Compaction. “In adding two, three or four species of cover crops in your mix, you can start to see the value in soil compaction,” says Ryan Heiniger, executive director of the Conservation ...

Art Gudas of Kewanna has been using cover crops to improve the soil of his fields since about 2011. He is shown with cover ...

Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil ...

A newly released National Cover Crop Survey Report digs into feedback provided by more than 650 U.S. farm advisors.

Lloyd Alveshere, farmer and retired NRCS conservationist, spoke on his experiences with regenerating farm fields with cover ...

A farmer in southeastern Minnesota is hopeful cover crops will help him return to spring fieldwork sooner following recent rains. Ed McNamara of Goodhue says cover crops dry the soil out. “It ...

Dust storms have become an increasing concern in Illinois, prompting investigations into their causes and potential solutions ...

Cover crop usage continues to grow across the country. Last week, the Conservation Technology Information Center announced ...

In the early 2010s, Stierwalt started experimenting with cover crops, which can help hold soil in place and reduce runoff pollution. “This valuable resource that we take for granted, we were let ...