Keith Berns of Green Cover Seed discusses solving cover crop struggles amid challenges of moisture and timing.

Cereal-rye cover crops are known for their tremendous ability to scavenge from the soil two of the most important resources for plants – moisture and nutrients, namely nitrogen. That's good, says the ...

Cover crops improve soil health and water quality, prevent nutrient loss, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but they're only grown on about 5% of U.S. agricultural lands. That's despite billions in ...

Keith Berns, co-founder of Green Cover weighs in with practical advice including three things for cover crop success, termination timing and water use.

A panel of farmers discussed their experiences with cover crops and soil health at HPJ Live in Wichita, Kansas, this past ...

What’s cover cropping all about, anyway? As with many eco initiatives, what was old is new again: Cover crops (or fallow season plantings; see more below) were first used during the Roman Empire as a ...

Illinois farmers who planted cover crops this fall can once again earn a break on next year’s crop insurance premiums through ...

Legume cover crops were effective only during the early season with a 47 percent reduction, while brassicas did not affect pigweed density. Cover crop residues remaining on the soil surface were more ...

How can you seed a cover crop without losing ground on the actual cash crop or adding another task to an already jam-packed ...

Macauley Kincaid reconnects a hood to part of his mill Aug. 7 at his family farm in Jasper, Mo. Kincaid is the second generation in his family to farm crops for seed production. He still uses the same ...

Illinois farmers who planted cover crops this fall can once again earn a break on next year’s crop insurance premiums through ...

DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 28-- The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship issued the following news: Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced today that the Iowa Department of ...