Millborn launches its newest seed brand: Renovo, which markets a lineup of 80 proprietary forage, cover crop and conservation seed mixes. Renovo seed mixes will be available via a network of seed ...

PHILOMATH, Ore. — Rebecca Sweet, owner of Buzz Cover Crop Seeds, views farmland as an opportunity to boost ecological systems. She consults with farmers to help them customize their habitats and ...

The NRCS conservation practice standard – Cover Crop (340) supports using grasses, legumes, and forbs for seasonal vegetative cover. Cover crops can provide many soil health benefits such as reduced ...

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, ...

Cover crops have been beneficial for managing wind or water erosion, increasing soil organic matter, aiding insect diversity, capturing moisture, managing soil temperature and reducing weed ...

Producers can break even in as little as two years But seed, planting costs challenge economics Landowners can frustrate farmers’ cover crop hopes This is the second part of our four-part series ...

Oats, daikon radish and legumes like vetch, fava or bell beans, as well as annual clovers, peas and wildflowers, will help replenish your soil. Even though daytime temperatures remain warm, the fall, ...

Stored hay can be a livestock producer’s best insurance, says University of Missouri Extension plant science specialist Caleb O’Neal, who is also a cattle producer. It provides flexibility for ...

OKABENA, Minn. -- Rural Lakefield farmer Jerry Ackermann has planted cover crops for several years now, and while it has been a learning process, he's finding more and more advantages to keeping a ...

Researchers, in a recent study, were surprised to learn that they could take the exact same number of seeds from the same plants, put them in agricultural fields across the Mid-Atlantic region and get ...