Cover crops provide a variety of benefits, but if you don’t terminate them well they can limit your cash crop’s success. Because there is more than one way to get the job done, be sure to consider ...

Cover crops out compete many troublesome weeds but cover crops need to be terminated. Most farmers kill cover crop with herbicides but crimper crop rollers can terminate naturally. Selecting the right ...

Odebolt, Iowa-based plastics manufacturer, Lundell Plastics Corp., officially unveiled its latest product: The crimping gauge wheel. This patented crimping gauge wheel provides crimping for ...

Farmers see a variety of benefits when using cover crops in their fields and home gardeners can do the same. “Having living tissue, living plants on the garden the whole year increases soil health, ...

No-till planting of sweet corn into a killed winter rye cover crop has the potential to provide soil health benefits such as reduced compaction, improved soil water holding capacity, reduced ...

Abstract: Silage tarping involves covering the soil with opaque plastic to block light for extended periods, helping to keep fields weed-free early in the season, creating stale seed beds, and ...

Cover crops play an important role in protecting the soil and water when cash crops like corn or soybean are not actively growing. The National Conservation Service promoted the use of cover crops ...

This is a story about cover crops, but first a little history lesson for those of you who are not old enough to remember what they are (which is most of us at this point). The Great Dust Bowl of the ...

Cover crops can provide a variety of benefits, but if you don’t terminate them well they could limit your cash crop’s success. There is more than one way to eliminate a cover crop, consider your ...