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 ...

“Rye would be an awesome cover crop to fly in on corn at physiological maturity ... Everybody’s trying to do their best to protect the soil. And there’s not one answer to that.

Statewide, Ohio faced extremely dry conditions late in the season. In northern Ohio, the planting season got off to a tough ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...