Illinois became the second state in the nation to offer subsidies to farmers for planting cover crops in the fall, an effort ...

Nitrate, pesticides, metals and plastic agricultural soils often contain pollutants. But are there sustainable and ...

American Farmland Trust focuses on protecting farmland, keeping farmers on the land and promoting sound farming practices.

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Using insecticides too often may boost weed growth. A new study shows why timing, observation, and cover crops make all the ...

In most regions, April brings warmer weather, thawed soil, the end of frosts, and more sunlight. In short, April is a great ...

Scotty and Jo Herriman, of South Coffeyville, Oklahoma, were the recipients of the 2024 Oklahoma Leopold Conservation Award.

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Spring is the perfect time to start sewing seeds, although there are a few plants which benefit from being left until ...

The dry spell has seen good progress with drilling, fertiliser and spraying – a huge contrast to last spring. It is also ...

States primarily growing water-intensive crops have more depleted soil, with lower levels of macro and micronutrients like ...

In the lush, rain-soaked hills of Idukki, a place that receives 3,600 mm of monsoon rain on an average each year, one might ...