By James Hoorman, Hoorman Soil Health Services, and Dusty Sonnenberg, CCA, Field Leader a project of the Ohio Soybean Council and Soybean Check-off Soybeans and small grains can have a complementary ...

Ross Evelsizer (left), natural resource projects director with Northeast Iowa Resource Conservation and Development, and Mike Bretz (right), a regenerative farmer in Buchanan County, Iowa, stand in a ...

FOX LAKE — The Fox Lake Inland Lake Protection and Rehabilitation District, in partnership with the Dodge County Healthy Soils/Healthy Waters initiative, will distribute free cereal rye seed to ...

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, ...

Cereal rye can be an excellent cover crop in the Northern Plains, primarily for the spring growth, but it needs to be managed effectively. Here are a few reminders on management. Having something ...

After small grains, we typically try to get our cover crop mixes seeded by August 15. That date has blown by us and it is now mid-September with some wheat still being harvested. This late harvest has ...

As we head into the end of the growing and gardening season, it’s important to show your garden some love after it has provided all season long for you and yours. My preferred cover crop mix is oats, ...

Weed control practices aren’t finished in the fall for Caleb Hamer, despite the completion of harvest. Instead, fall marks the start of his weed-prevention plan for the following spring, especially ...

Most fall-planted cover crops will have higher growth than last year, even though 2018 corn and soybean harvests extended a few weeks longer than normal. Among the mix of cover crops selected, cereal ...