With cool-season vegetable crops going into the ground, many gardeners who ventured into cover cropping last autumn may ask a familiar question: What do I do now? Their crops have fulfilled their ...

Planting a diversity of crops can prove beneficial during extreme weather events. Some plants are better able to stand up to ...

Nitrate, pesticides, metals and plastic agricultural soils often contain pollutants. But are there sustainable and ...

(See the graph on page 40 for one example.) Some cover crops can sequester nitrogen for the following corn crop, reducing the amount of applied nitrogen. “In our experience, nitrogen is still ...

But over his 40 years as a corn and soybean farmer in Champaign County, Stierwalt said soil erosion, which can cause ...