Farmers for Soil Health resumes enrollment with higher payments and shorter contracts, while Minnesota's low-interest loan ...

Ashland County farmers are adopting cover crops to improve soil health and reduce erosion, supported by new cost-share ...

Farmers for Soil Health has reopened enrollment for 2026, offering farmers higher payments and a simplified contract aimed at encouraging more cover crop adoption across U.S. farmland. The farmer-led ...

No matter the type of farm, there’s an advantage to planting soil-feeding cover crops ahead of fall and winter. The assistance provided depends on the crops you plant. But there is definitely one out ...

Maybe after you finish your vegetable harvest, you mentally say, “I’m done this year,” and wait to start again next year. But a cover crop could benefit you in several ways. By researching now, you ...

While farmers plant millions acres of plants like rye and clover to boost soil health and crowd out weeds, a cover crop does the same thing in the smallest home garden. With cover crops, a vegetable ...

Cover crops and ways to reduce row-crop input costs are the focus of a KMAland field day event on Monday. Alan Zellmer of ...

Daikon radishes used as a cover crop. (Photo: Edwin Remsberg/SARE) Producers can break even in as little as two years But seed, planting costs challenge economics Landowners can frustrate farmers’ ...

Different cover crop application methods and timing of those applications were evaluated at Ivy Tech in Lafayette, IN. Cover crop treatments are highlighted from right to left which corresponds to ...

The University of Minnesota Extension’s Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships (RSDP) has a long history of investing ...