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The University of Minnesota Extension, Great Lakes Cover Crop Project, and other partners are currently recruiting farmers to participate for the 2025 season! This community science effort brings toge ...

The best way to support and maintain a healthy sustainable community is by protecting wildlife, birds and pollinators.

Crop rotation is the practice of planting different crops sequentially on the same plot to improve soil health, optimize nutrients in the soil and fight pests and weeds. We’ll get to that, but ...

A successful harvest in orchard and vineyard crops begins with a viable spring bloom and fruit set. Given the importance of this stage of crop development, spring frosts during bloom and early fruit ...

Unverferth Manufacturing Co., Inc. announces the addition of a mounted cover crop seeder for its Rolling Harrow soil conditioner to provide time-saving, one-pass planting of these profit-enhancing ...

This database describes the cover cropping strategies, detailed practices, benefits, and challenges of experienced cover crop ...

The drone was being used to demonstrate how it can drop cover crops seeds between rows of corn or soybeans. (The Gazette) The result will be fewer crop-dusting planes, Hanner and Licht predict.