In most fields, corn residue remaining after grain harvest is incorporated into the soil with tillage or is left on the soil surface. But corn residue is also becoming a commodity. It’s ...

A no till system keeps the channels open as corn and soybean roots push deeper each year. On tough fragipans with annual ryegrass as a cover crop, Plumer documented the root growth inch by inch ...

In a 2015 strip trial on a central Illinois farm, three cover crop mixtures were planted behind a wheat crop, next to the grower’s normal double-crop soybeans. In 2016, corn planted behind the ...

A growing number of farmers plant cover crops such as cereal rye after harvesting their corn or soybeans to cover the soil ...

they report a new strategy that achieves multiple conservation goals while maintaining corn yield: injecting manure into a ...

In an organic soybean – winter wheat – corn rotation, livestock manure and/or compost are the common choice ... The N contribution of a legume cover crop will certainly reduce fertilizer N inputs to ...

The Indiana State Department of Agriculture, The Nature Conservancy, Indiana Agriculture Nutrient Alliance and the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Risk Management Agency have joined ...