Annual ryegrass was king in Princeton, Ky., Oct. 3, as retired University of Kentucky Extension Soil Specialist Lloyd Murdock showcased a relatively unknown benefit the grass species offers farmers in ...

Junior Upton is fragipan’s nightmare. In the late 1990s, Upton was dealing with drought and strangled yield across much of his farmland. He planted annual ryegrass following harvest, hoping to gain ...

Meet alfalfa, a perennial legume used mainly as high-quality feed for dairy cattle. Alfalfa is also used as feed for beef cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. It's high in protein (16-20% crude protein).

Before you put your garden to bed, consider giving it a winter blanket—aka, a cover crop. Sowed in the fall, these cold-hardy plants work hard to improve soil throughout winter by decreasing ...

University of Kentucky Professor Emeritus Tasios Karathanasis in a soil pit at a Soil Building Field Day, March 13 in Murray, Kent., explains how annual ryegrass roots can break up fragipan, a ...

It’s more than 2,200 miles from Albany to Creal Springs, Ill., but mid-valley grass seed growers are having a major impact for some corn and soybean producers there, helping increase per-acre income ...

Understanding the effects of previous herbicide applications on cover crops is important if cover crops are to be successfully established during the same growing season. Greenhouse research was ...

Establishment of annual ryegrass cover crop that was drill-interseeded into wide-row (152 cm row spacing) corn at the V3 growth stage. WESTMINSTER, Colorado – 20 March 2024 – Recently published ...

A patch of annual ryegrass on the South Farm, used in a UI study about the yield affects of cover crops.