CORVALLIS, Ore. – No one wants to think of harvest’s end as the vegetable garden reaches peak, but now’s the time to plant over-winter cover crops to improve your soil for next season. If you’re not ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For an Earth-friendly garden, keep a succession of plants in the soil by planting cover crops. These are plants grown to improve the soil rather than for ...
DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — The Farm Progress Show is next week in Decatur, and one of the things expected to be discussed is cover crops. Cover crops are planted to cover the soil, not to be harvested.
GOSHEN — Purdue Extension Elkhart County is offering free cover crop seed while supplies last. Small packets have been made up to seed roughly a 100 square foot area (10 feet by 10 feet, for example, ...
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 ...
Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil carbon from erosion, a factor that's underestimated in considering the carbon ...
No one knows who first invented the idea of using cover crops to protect soil in agriculture fields, but by 6000 B.C. farmers ...
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Despite benefits, many Iowa farmers still don't plant cover crops
By Olivia Cohen for The Cedar Rapids Gazette and Wisconsin Watch. Broadcast version by Mark Richardson for Iowa News Service ...
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 ...
The Tulsa County OSU Extension Service will play host to a live broadcast of the National Conference on Cover Crops and Soil Health on Tuesday, Feb. 18.
APPLEGATE, Ore. — Garett Long, director of agriculture at Troon Vineyard, said cover crops attract pollinators, provide habitat for armies of beneficial insects, improve soil health and increase ...
Inside a barn in southwest Missouri, Macauley Kincaid operates a massive contraption of wood and metal affixed with pipes, pulleys and wheels. "This was like state of the art for its time. I mean, ...
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