An overarching goal for planting cover crops is to produce as much biomass as possible during the growing window. Higher levels of cover crop biomass will reduce soil erosion, inhibit weed growth, and ...

Different cover crop application methods and timing of those applications were evaluated at Ivy Tech in Lafayette, IN. Cover crop treatments are highlighted from right to left which corresponds to ...

I don't have the biggest garden in the world, so I'm always looking for ways to maximize my space. That's why I've been researching how to plan a season of harvests in one square yard, i.e. planting ...

HAMPTON, Iowa — Long-time Practical Farmers of Iowa members Doug Alert and Margaret Smith have looked at organic no-till planting into cover crops, a system pioneered by Jeff Moyer at the Rodale ...

This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Zamede Asfaw was growing up on a farm in eastern Ethiopia, he soaked up plant lore and other ...

A new satellite-based analytical framework enables accurate estimation of crop sowing and emergence dates at the field scale. By integrating daily ...