These basic principles are the foundation for cover crop success. Brush up on the types of cover crops, goal-setting, ...

While there are several good options for terminating cover crops, it’s important to understand which cover crop termination methods work best for your specific cover cropping system and overall ...

Maybe after you finish your vegetable harvest, you mentally say, “I’m done this year,” and wait to start again next year. But a cover crop could benefit you in several ways. By researching now, you ...

No matter the type of farm, there’s an advantage to planting soil-feeding cover crops ahead of fall and winter. The assistance provided depends on the crops you plant. But there is definitely one out ...

Iowa is rolling out cover crop incentives upstream of Des Moines as part of a new watershed program aimed at cutting nutrient runoff and improving water quality.

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 ...

Researchers have developed a new model that can suggest the optimal conditions for farmers to plant cover crops, or crops grown in between cash-crop seasons, to help ensure long-term cash-crop success ...

AMES, Iowa (WOI) - New research from Iowa State University shows only 23% of Iowa farmers are using cover crops, despite it being a proven strategy to reduce nitrate levels in waterways. The study ...

As Des Moines struggles with high nitrate levels, lawn watering ban, state ag agency doubles cover crop incentives for ...

The latest enrollment period for the 20-state incentive program aimed at increasing cover crop adoption is open now through the end of the summer. The Farmers for Soil Health program provides ...