Art Gudas of Kewanna has been using cover crops to improve the soil of his fields since about 2011. He is shown with cover ...

Turnips are often mixed with another forage species, such as cereal grass. Widely available and normally spring-planted for grain, oats have the advantage of strong fall growth as a cover crop. Many ...

What a contrast from last spring. Of course, ironically we are now getting desperate for rain, after one of our wettest ...

Learn about an Iowa plot trial that is looking at the yield boosting potential of strip cropping corn and cover crops.

Lloyd Alveshere, farmer and retired NRCS conservationist, spoke on his experiences with regenerating farm fields with cover ...

A friend from church asked me, “Is there any cover crop to plant in the spring?” Traditionally, most home gardeners only plant cover crops in the fall. Spring plantings of cover crops will help ...

For example, most forage cover crops have outstanding nutritional value during the fall. The exceptions are warm-season species, such as the early-planted sorghums or millets and some of the ...

COVER CROP ROI Ferrie’s 10 years of cover crop strip trials usually produced negative ROIs. “Even if we didn’t lose yield, there was no additional yield to offset the cost of the cover crop ...