Prepping garden beds in late fall can help keep pests, weeds, and diseases from away when its time to plant in the spring.

Grass clippings are another free mulch option that can help your garden beds through winter. Spread them in a thin layer, ...

Cover crops offer major environmental benefits, including better soil structure, reduced nutrient loss, improved water quality, and lower greenhouse gas emissions. Yet adoption remains low across the ...

A panel of farmers discussed their experiences with cover crops and soil health at HPJ Live in Wichita, Kansas, this past ...

Adoption peaked after four years, showing sustained interest and growing social acceptance of cover crops. The researchers concluded that demonstration networks can support long-term conservation ...

Before fall descends into winter, we vegetable gardeners have to make a decision: whether to put the vegetable garden to bed with a cover crop of crimson clover (or other green manure) until spring, ...

Mix leaves with green waste like veggie peels or grass clippings to balance the pile. Keep it moist but not soggy and turn it ...

In addition, the U.S. soybean crop is expected to be quite robust as well, less than five percent below the 4.46 billion bushel record production level recorded in 2021. Even the U.S. wheat crop was ...

Advocates of conservation practices and cover crops are looking to speed up the development of new crop insurance products by going around USDA to start testing coverage for growers who want to ...

The bureau chief for land and water resources with the Illinois Department of Agriculture says farmers who planted cover crops have an opportunity to save on their crop insurance premiums.