Cover crops help make soils healthy
Growing crops like rye and clover between harvests gives the soil better defenses against extreme weather.
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Growing crops like rye and clover between harvests gives the soil better defenses against extreme weather.
#mgnv #mastergardeners #covercrops You may think that your vegetable garden effort ends with the last vegetable harvested or the last plant pulled out, but if you really want to ge...
Both farmers and home gardeners are likely to find cover cropping a valuable practice. Sowing dense, fast-growing plants to cover fallow soil helps to control weed growth and inhib...
 🌱 GREEN MANURES — Feed the Soil, Not Just the Crop!Green manuring is a simple but powerful practice where fast-growing crops are incorporated into the soil while still green...
What’s the latest buzz about Clover Cover Crops? Today’s blog is a short one. We noticed that the last few … Continue reading "Clover Cover Crops" The post Clover Cover Crops appe...
The Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) is offering its insurance discount program for cover crops for the eighth year. The program, called Fall Covers for Spring Savings Pro...
Teagasc has confirmed that it is to host a cover crops open day at Oak Park in Co. Carlow on Friday, October 30. The event will profile the results already generated from trials, h...
Crops such as vetch, field beans and forage peas can improve soil if you use them as a mulch I am locked in an eternal battle with my soil. Now, I adore the earth and believe it to...
For years, agricultural scientists have promoted crop diversification as one of the most reliable levers for building soil organic carbon, the vast carbon reservoir that underlies...
Breaks crops, such as spring beans and winter oilseed rape, are now the real financial drivers on Irish tillage farms. This is in total contrast to the situation that existed five...
The additional shade reduces evaporation and stress on the plants, all while generating clean electricity.
A Swiss lysimeter experiment found that non-inversion tillage reduced nitrate leaching by up to 42 percent on some soils during a wet, bare-soil period, suggesting reduced tillage...
Research scientist Ashish Rajurkar kneels in the dirt, lifting a large clod of soil tangled around a soybean plant. He knocks away pieces of earth from the plant’s roots, which slo...
Brazilian researchers found that removing the outer seed coverings and treating seeds with extracts from Trichoderma orientale grown on agricultural waste and from Pereskia aculeat...
The farmers saw stronger crop stands, healthier tillers, improved grain filling and fields that remained protected during some of the crop’s most critical growth stages.
Irish merchants are confirming that tillage farmers have switched their seed procurement priorities from winter oilseed rape to hybrid rye. Recent years have seen a significant gro...
The 2026 Teagasc Crops Forum provided a unique opportunity for tillage farmers and specialists to come together. It followed what has been one of the most challenging seasons for I...
Conservation tillage has been widely promoted as a climate-smart approach towards sustainable food production. However, a new study by Rothamsted Research suggests that its impact...
A sixteen-year Chinese field experiment shows that returning both wheat and maize straw to lime concretion black soil each year boosts soil nutrients, leaf photosynthesis, and maiz...
As the 2026 harvest comes to a close, farmers are trying new ways to improve their soil health after a long dry summer. However, some of these changes may not be as radical as you...
A 47-year Hungarian field experiment shows nitrogen fertiliser prevented about 90 percent of soil carbon loss under cropping but slowed carbon sequestration after conversion to gra...
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