Johnson, who farms near Breckenridge in the southern Red River Valley of Minnesota, spent part of Sept. 1 interseeding a cover crop mixture between the rows of one of his sugarbeet fields. Vance ...

Summer interseeding may be a good cover crop strategy for farmers with shorter growing seasons. So say the first-year results from a USDA-sponsored soil health demonstration project in northern Iowa.

Establishment of annual ryegrass cover crop that was drill-interseeded into wide-row (152 cm row spacing) corn at the V3 growth stage. WESTMINSTER, Colorado – 20 March 2024 – Recently published ...

OKABENA, Minn. -- Rural Lakefield farmer Jerry Ackermann has planted cover crops for several years now, and while it has been a learning process, he's finding more and more advantages to keeping a ...

GOODHUE, Minn. — Goodhue County farmer and Soil & Water Conservation District Board Supervisor Ed McNamara continues to fine-tune his use of cover crops for forage, fertilizer and soil health. This ...

In traditional corn rotations, overwintering with a cover crop is an attractive option for producers wanting to make strategic improvements to field conditions or take advantage of forage potential ...

In addition to the cover crop comparison above, some strips of cereal rye/hairy vetch were planted to evaluate the effects against next year’s crop. This field was previously planted in corn and going ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Milwaukee River Watershed Clean Farm Families group was formed in 2016 and initially included ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 10, 2022) Cover crops added in-between rows of organic corn while they are still growing can provide a range of benefits that improve a farm’s sustainability and lowers its ...

Using satellite imagery and government data, researchers measured a 5% increase in voluntary, or non-subsidized, cover crop ...

The Milwaukee River Watershed Clean Farm Families group was formed in 2016 and initially included the Milwaukee River watershed as the project area. The group expanded in 2021 to include all of ...