Brandon farmer Josh Hiemstra says cover crops not only improve his soil, they provide a diverse ration for his cows.

After a year of drought and weather challenges, some cattle farmers are putting in extra cover crops this fall to ease the forage burden. Here’s the top six cover crops Midwest cattle farmers are ...

Sustainable farming emphasizes the importance of conserving natural resources and protecting the environment, to guide ...

The second chart shows what Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie calls the opportunity cost — the difference in net profit over the two years that resulted from planting the cover crops and ...

The problem of “not seeing the forest for the trees” may have a solution with 3-D technology being used to estimate biomass ...

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 NFU has launched a new strategy, Harvesting Growth, to boost the sustainability and profitability of the UK’s combinable ...

A soybean researcher says cover crops can be another mode of action for controlling weeds, but it will take a lot of biomass. Shawn Conley says University of Wisconsin research through weed scientist ...

Cover crops and green manures are grown primarily for reasons other than short term economic gain. In other words, they are not produced for sale, but rather for the benefits they provide to the ...

Inc. announces the addition of a mounted cover crop seeder for its Rolling Harrow soil conditioner to provide time-saving, one-pass planting of these profit-enhancing crops. Cover crops are proven ...