Rapeseed is a popular cover crop choice due to its deep-growing taproot, which creates soil macropores and increases water infiltration. Brassicaceae spp. that are mature or at later growth stages can ...

CLARA CITY - Winter can come hard to the Minnesota prairie, but never so early that cover crops cannot be used to improve and protect the soil. "We do have the potential here,'' said Holly Hatlewick, ...

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 ...

The weather conditions this spring forced farmers who plant cover crops to plant green this year. Ron Zelle of Waverly, Iowa, has been planting cover crops for 10 years on all of his 300 acres of ...

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 ...