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 ...

Cover crop treatments are highlighted from right to left which corresponds to planting time. The cereal rye and hairy vetch cover crops on the right side of the image was interseeded into corn at a ...

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 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 ...

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

Cover Crop Field Day and the Regional Conservation Partnership Program We join Joe Lawler at his farm on a Cover Crop Field Day. Bryan Jennings from the American Coalition for Ethanol discusses ...

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 ...