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Researchers have developed a new model that can suggest the optimal conditions for farmers to plant cover crops, or crops grown in between cash-crop seasons, to help ensure long-term cash-crop ...

Cover crops are grown before spring crops in a rotation that alternates winter and spring crops. “That way we’re growing six crops in four years – four harvested, two grazed.

A Wayne County farmer “plants green” into a standing cover crop of cereal rye. The cover crop will provide soil stability and nutrients for the emerging crop of corn or soybeans. 27,523 people ...

Some cover crops can sequester nitrogen for the following corn crop, reducing the amount of applied nitrogen. “In our experience, nitrogen is still cheaper to buy,” Ferrie points out.

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Researchers have developed a new model that can suggest the optimal conditions for farmers to plant cover crops, or crops grown in between cash-crop seasons, to help ensure long-term cash-crop success ...

Farmers are required to sign up to plant at least 10 acres of cover crops in order to participate in this program. For more information about the Cover Crop Program, click here.

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Across much of the Midwest, the atmosphere is becoming warmer and retaining more water, leading to heavier downpours. A ...