Wondering how and when to terminate your cover crop? Perhaps planting green is right for you. This practice involves planting your corn or soybean crop directly into a cover crop like cereal rye or ...

Spring planting is all but finished, according to USDA. However, for some Indiana farmers, their fields were green long before their row crop seed ever touched the ground. Freshly tilled soil, ...

Nitrogen in the soil, where plants can readily utilize it, benefits crop growth and health. However, nitrogen leaving the soil—whether through leaching into the groundwater table, flowing with surface ...

Corn crops have a voracious appetite for nitrogen. Purdue University scientists are investigating whether mulching Kura clover, a perennial legume, can provide sufficient nitrogen for corn, thus ...

GALVA, Ill. — Cover crops are a conservation practice farmers use to increase healthy soil and decrease erosion and compaction. Growers plant crops, such as cereal rye, winter barley and hairy vetch, ...

A research plot after dairy manure slurry was injected into a growing cover crop in early spring when temperatures were cooler, A new study demonstrated that the practice achieved multiple ...