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 ...

Planting dry beans into spring cover crops could be a measure to protect young plants from damaging weather conditions like ...

per-acre double-cropped soybeans. It ranged from $213 to $260 per acre. You Decide to Plant Cover Crops ... Experimenting with cover crops is a good idea, says Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken ...

Why do farmers use cover crops? The number one reason is still erosion control or prevention followed by better soil biology ...

But most research has studied the effects of the carbon added to soil via the roots and biomass of the overwintering plants, Huang said. "We think a lot about how cover crops affect soil carbon ...

Cover crops cost roughly $35 to $40 an acre, and farmers don’t make a direct profit from it. The crops are planted in the ...

Cover crops help avoid soil erosion and runoff. Gov. JB Pritzker is proposing a 31% funding cut to a program that helps ...

But most research has studied the effects of the carbon added to soil via the roots and biomass of the overwintering plants, Huang said. “We think a lot about how cover crops affect soil carbon levels ...