I had been to a couple of cover crop seminars and heard how they might help improve my farming practices and thought I should look into them. 4. Breaking up my corn and soybean monoculture.

In a 2015 strip trial on a central Illinois farm, three cover crop mixtures were planted behind a wheat crop, next to the grower’s normal double-crop soybeans. In 2016, corn planted behind the ...

A DJI Agras was used to spread cover crops over standing soybeans. Cover crop mixes varied and were compared against the same mixes drilled after harvest. Several demonstrations are planned across the ...

Rather, you'll plant a cover crop in the spring or fall when and if the ground is bare. In some instances, with specific ...

they report a new strategy that achieves multiple conservation goals while maintaining corn yield: injecting manure into a ...

Drones were a common sight at the 2025 Keystone Farm Show. Custom applicators, manufacturers and even well-known equipment ...

the area for safrinha corn will be smaller than initially projected. In January of this year, Agroconsult estimated that the crop would cover 17.4 million hectares; now, the consultancy projects ...

Manitoba Agriculture has released its 2025 cost of production analysis for crops, and as one would expect, the picture isn’t ...

particularly because of the second crop of corn in Brazil, or safrinha. Previously considered merely a way to keep the soil in use between two important harvests, corn’s second crop gained ...