LAKEFIELD, Minn. -- When Jerry Ackermann had some of his crop drown out this spring, he opted to plant purple-topped turnips and tillage radish on the prevented plant acres. These are the same crops ...

Planting cover crops ahead of corn can be tricky but is not impossible. Learn which species work, which don’t and how much ...

If you looked closely at my farm earlier this fall, you could see the hillsides starting to green up. Sprouts of rye were emerging through the corn stover that was left in the field after harvest, ...

MORA, Minn. — Beef cattle can graze many things, but grazing cover crops may be new for many. Anytime livestock move into a new eating regime, there can be performance and cost fluctuations. Eric ...

‘Prosperity,’ customer pressure help stir cover crop interest The ‘yo-yo’ principle of managing cover crops Is USDA overpromoting cover crops? This is the first part of a four-part series examining ...

When the Southern Cover Crops Council held its annual conference recently in Baton Rouge, I was fortunate to sit in on panel discussions with farmers and specialty crops (vegetables, fruits, nuts and ...

Cover crops are extremely important soil food web tools. Anyone listening to the “Teaming With Microbes” podcasts knows I am into them. Depending on which you use, these plants are capable of breaking ...

Before long the calves that are at their mother’s side right now will be sold in the fall as stockers, and particularly with the rising price of feed and drought conditions, buyers could be looking ...

MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to produce. We rely on donations from our readers to fund our independent journalism. Last summer, the state Department of Agriculture released a ...

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service are collaborating on a series of cover crop fact sheets for Iowa ...

When a farmer plants a crop to provide protection for the soil in between cash crops, those are called cover crops. Cover crops provide a root structure to hold the soil in place to prevent erosion, ...