If you’re wondering which cover crop might be best for your farm, you’ll want to check out the Cover Crop Chart from the USDA’s Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory. The interactive PDF outlines ...

MANDAN, N.D.-The colorful chart behind Holly Johnson looks a little like the periodic table of elements, only instead of elements, there are carefully arranged columns of crops. The chart has been in ...

Cover crops provide benefits to vegetable farms of all sizes in addition to larger-scale contributions to the public good. Reduced tillage systems can provide additional soil health benefits. Many ...

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 harvest. I prepare the soil for the next year ...

Different cover crop application methods and timing of those applications were evaluated at Ivy Tech in Lafayette, IN. Cover crop treatments are highlighted from right to left which corresponds to ...

Why let your fields lie fallow until April when you can take advantage of the coming slow months to improve soil quality? Though a couple cover crops, like white clover and millet, require spring or ...

With the thought of prevented planting acres looming, preparing those acres for next year's crop will be important. Rather than leaving those acres fallow, getting a full-season cover crop planted ...

In order to improve soil heath and organic matter, vegetable gardeners should aim to have actively growing plants in the garden for 10 or eleven months each year. This is desirable because organisms ...

Grazing cover crops after grain is harvested in the same field can pay off even where the growing season is short, according ...

MANDAN, N.D. - The colorful chart behind Holly Johnson looks a little like the periodic table of elements, only instead of elements, there are carefully arranged columns of crops. The chart has been ...