David Whitwam with Whitwam Organics joined Good Day to explain the benefits of “cover crops,” including improving the soil and controlling weeds in your garden.

Protecting trees might not seem like a public health strategy, but new research suggests it could be—especially in the ...

The majority of Brazilian coffee is produced in monoculture crops with no vegetation cover in between-rows spacing of plants (Carvalho et al., 2007; Ragassi et al., 2013). Most farmers plow or apply ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - People have assumed climate change solutions that sequester carbon from the air into soils will also benefit crop yields. But a new study from Cornell University finds that most ...

Single crops with Pennisetum glaucum, Urochloa ruziziensis and Crotalaria spectabilis or intercropped with annual cultures can be effective in suppressing the infesting community. In the NT system, ...

Cover crops can be interseeded into planted row crops, providing grazing later in the fall/winter for cattle. Photo credit: Connor Biehler Cover crop inter-seeding refers to the practice of planting a ...

Erosion was a huge concern. Since 2011, Dennis has planted cover crops and has begun utilizing the Haney Soil Health test. Now the rolling fields are green all year and covered with a mixture of cover ...

New forage crop announced for Western Australian farmers Locally developed new triticale variety a result of international research collaboration Part of Cook Government's ongoing investment to grow ...

Practices eligible for this funding are cover crops, no-till or strip till, or using a nitrification inhibitor when applying fertilizer in the fall. Keokuk County residents can contact the Keokuk ...

Senator Dick Durbin is advocating for more programs that will give farmers an incentive to start planting cover crops. Here is how California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to address a $12 billion ...