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Importance of Cover Crops to Reduce Runoff and Soil Erosion
Cover crops are an important practice to improve soil structure, improve infiltration, and reduce soil erosion
How to Choose a Cover Crop
Planting cover crops now can improve soil quality for your spring planting. Our no-nonsense chart will help you figure out exactly what to put in the ground this fall.
How to kill cover crops
Terminating cover crops is key to successful management.
How to choose cover crops for rotations
How should you choose cover crops? First, determine a goal for using the cover crops. What do you want to do? Once the goal is identified, then it's time to think about the current crop and next crop in rotation. This is where it can get tricky, so I'll run though some ideas for different rotations.
Tips for planting into cover crops
Planting corn or soybeans following a cover crop is not business as usual.
How Vintners Use Cover Crops in Vineyards
Winegrowers and researchers weigh in on the benefits of cover crops—from improved soil health to reduced costs
how cover crops improve your garden
Learn how cover crops can help fight algae blooms
Around the world, millions of people do not have access to clean drinking water. In the Eastern half of the US, however, most people have become accustomed to having unlimited …
Cover Crops: An Idea Worth Planting?
How many times have you been on a road trip bound towards a beautiful mountain scene or national monument? Did you notice the land you passed along your way,...
Why the Government Should Pay Farmers to Plant Cover Crops
This and a few other relatively simple steps could go a long way toward readying America's farmland for climate change.
Magic cover crop carpet?
Organic farmers can use a combination of cover crops and no-till methods to improve soil health, suppress weeds, and retain moisture, suggests a new report.
Cover crops and potatoes: How effective are they?
One of the cornerstones of the regenerative ag movement is the use of cover crops. But many say cover crops only really work in no-till systems.
Cover Crops Build Soil
Growing a full-season cover for grazing increases soil organic matter.
Benefits of Planting Cover Crops
Cover crops are one of the oldest and most efficient ways of improving your garden soil. They don't call it "green manure" for nothing.
How to Improve Your Soil Quality and Nitrogen Levels By Planting a Cover Crop
Tricia shares how to use green manure, or cover crops in your vegetable garden.
Is a cereal rye cover crop enough?
I am often asked this question: "Is using only cereal rye as a cover crop enough or do I need more diversity?" My answer is, "It depends on what you are trying to do with that cover crop."One goal of using cover crops is to build diversity in the cropping system, but there are plenty...
Is it too late to plant cover crops?
An online tool from Cornell University can help with your decision making.
Is there a place for cover crops on your farm?
Is there a place for cover crops on your farm? At the fall field day at the K-State Extension Center-Hays, cover crop research was discussed. Can it replace some nitrogen for your spring crops? Is is another cash crop for cellulose?
How Can Cover Crop Use Help to Achieve Global Food Security?
Next Generation Delegate Rachel Atwell on the use of cover crops to enhance agricultural productivity around the world.
Cover Crops Reap Financial Benefits, Not Just Environmental
An increasing number of farmers is using cover crops to keep water, soil and nutrients from running off fields. But while many studies have shown the
Cost of cover cropping less than some expect
Planting cover crops and grazing them sounds great in theory, but once farmers consider the extra costs and work that goes into it, many shy away from the idea. Now
