The southeast Minnesota group which markets its food-grade oats is selling most of its crop this year to La Crosse Milling ...

Tests with sorghum and oats showed weed suppression. These tests showed less effect than those where a winter hardy crop was killed chemically in the spring. Winter-killed cover crops form a mulch in ...

A farmer in southeastern Minnesota is hopeful cover crops will help him return to spring fieldwork sooner following recent rains. Ed McNamara of Goodhue says cover crops dry the soil out. “It ...

The most common cover crops are grasses such as cereal rye, winter wheat, oats or annual ryegrass. Spring is the time to kill your cover crop. Methods to kill your cover crop are mowing it down as ...

Lloyd Alveshere, farmer and retired NRCS conservationist, spoke on his experiences with regenerating farm fields with cover ...

Art Gudas of Kewanna has been using cover crops to improve the soil of his fields since about 2011. He is shown with cover ...

The report says that the largest area of crops is barley – 612,200 hectares. Spring wheat has already been sown on 141,100 hectares, peas – 182,800 hectares, oats – 106,100 hectares, corn – 20 ...

The largest area of crops is barley – 656,200 hectares, spring wheat has already been sown on 169,400 hectares, peas – 189,400 hectares, oats – 139,500 hectares, corn – 69,500 hectares. Sunflowers ...