Conservation methods can help rejuvenate farmland, but the startup cost and uncertain results mean a risk many farmers still aren't willing to take. The University of Missouri Center for Regenerative ...

GOSHEN — Purdue Extension Elkhart County is offering free cover crop seed while supplies last. Small packets have been made up to seed roughly a 100 square foot area (10 feet by 10 feet, for example, ...

Chickpea plant that is nitrogen-fixing and drought-tolerant blooming in a field - Sean Gallup/Getty Images Because they are primarily grown for food, you may not think of the chickpea (Cicer arietinum ...

A version of this story first appeared on Missouri’s KBIA. Regenerative agriculture methods, such as cover crops, are one way farmers try to improve the health of their overworked soil. But adopting ...

SALEM, Ore. — However many advantages can be gained from cover crops, they can’t do much good without first getting planted. Farmers with short growing seasons may lack the opportunity to establish ...

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 ...

Three thousand years ago, farmers in China nurtured their soil with a technique I am just now exploring. Those ancient farmers understood, no doubt from experience, that leaving their soil bare over ...

RAFT RIVER — Nathan Gartner is trying to figure out how to make his irrigation water do double duty so he can maintain profitability while farming fewer acres. He thinks cover crops may be part of ...

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