Agriculture is the spine of all the societies around the globe, which, for centuries, sustain economies, cultures, and ...

A changing climate means more erratic weather patterns, including a higher risk of flooding events. Farmers, in particular, face several challenges from climate change, such as an increased risk of ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Planting cover crops in rotation between cash crops -- widely agreed to be ecologically beneficial -- is even more valuable than previously thought, according to a team of ...

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 ...

To gain a better grasp on the growing interest in cover crops, the National Cover Crop Survey, in its seventh year, checked in with growers from across the country. Of the 795 respondents, 561 said ...

Newly planted winter camelina seedlings sprout in little green rows at the University of Minnesota field plots on the St. Paul campus. The winter annual plant is one of 15 breeds University ...

LA CROSSE, Wis. — Jeffrey Moyer told a nearly full audience at his recent Organic Farming Conference workshop to think of their farms in a new way: Focus first on cover crops, then cash crops. "Cover ...

On U. S. farms the last bushel of wheat had been threshed, the last shock of corn stacked, the last apple picked, the last potato dug last week when the Department of Agriculture issued its final ...

MADISON — Despite a devastating drought, the cash crops business boosted the collective bottom line for Wisconsin farmers in 2012 and remains an economic juggernaut closing in on the dairy industry as ...