On April 16th, Van Wychen Farms in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, will host an event designed to equip farmers with strategies for the potentially challenging 2025 planting season. Attendees will enjoy a ...

Nitrate, pesticides, metals and plastic agricultural soils often contain pollutants. But are there sustainable and ...

This database describes the cover cropping strategies, detailed practices, benefits, and challenges of experienced cover crop ...

A successful harvest in orchard and vineyard crops begins with a viable spring bloom and fruit set. Given the importance of this stage of crop development, spring frosts during bloom and early fruit ...

The environmental disaster through which we recently lived is likely to be a harbinger of years to come. I say that because ...

He has been using no-till and minimal tillage since 2010 and cover crops since around 2016. Johnson says he gets a lot of questions from producers about the cost of implementing conservation ...

A new four-month project which is being funded by AHDB and three water firms is set to predict nutrient release from cover crops. It will include assessments of decision support tools that estimate ...

The role of cover crops has been well profiled in both the UK and Ireland as a means of improving water quality. Accounting for nutrients in cover crops is the subject of a new desk study, which will ...

How to account for nutrients in cover crops is the subject of a new desk study funded by AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds and three water companies (Anglian Water, Southern Water and Wessex Water). The ...

Cover cropping can enhance soil health and boost crop yields but may also contribute to increased greenhouse gas emissions, raising questions about its widespread adoption. Cover cropping can enhance ...

Seed companies have seen unprecedented demand for cover crop seed with USDA’s decision to move up the harvest date for the crop on prevented plant acres to September 1. One of those companies is ...

Liz Stahl, extension educator of crops from University of Minnesota Extension in Worthington explains things producers need to remember when adding cover crops and herbicides together on an operation.