Cover crops are non-harvested plants grown between or alongside cash crops to maintain soil cover and provide a suite of ecosystem services. Strategically chosen cover species can suppress weeds, ...

For years, governments have channeled their support for agriculture through incentives that nudge you in directions they feel are beneficial, such as erosion control, clean water and wildlife habitat.

A Monroe, Neb., farmer has developed a successful new twin-row cover crop system and built an innovative drill to make it ...

Despite the Western Cape’s dry climate limiting traditional off-season cover cropping, farmers and researchers are finding ...

Kansas State University researchers have found that grazing cover crops can improve soil health in no-till dryland cropping systems, addressing a key concern for producers in water-limited ...

Cover crops play an important role in protecting the soil and water when cash crops like corn or soybean are not actively growing. The National Conservation Service promoted the use of cover crops ...

Cover crops provide benefits to vegetable farms of all sizes in addition to larger-scale contributions to the public good. Reduced tillage systems can provide additional soil health benefits. Many ...

For years, both scientists and farmers have debated whether the use of cover crops—plants used to cover the ground after harvesting of main crops—have a positive or negative impact on subsequent crop ...

The latest enrollment period for the 20-state incentive program aimed at increasing cover crop adoption is open now through the end of the summer. The Farmers for Soil Health program provides ...

People have assumed climate change solutions that sequester carbon from the air into soils will also benefit crop yields. But a new study finds that most regenerative farming practices to build soil ...

An Iowa farmer checks his cereal rye cover crop. Hawkeye State farmers plant more than 2 million acres of cover crops each year to prevent soil erosion and reduce the loss of nutrients. Editor’s note: ...

In South Africa's dryland farming systems, successful farmers aren’t necessarily those who receive more rain but those who ...