The latest Midwest research on sustainable vegetable production and crop innovations shaping agriculture’s future.

Many farmers in western North Dakota have planted cover crops like cereal rye or triticale this fall, but as dry as this ...

Landin Plagge, founder of Green Acres Milling, is a farmer from Latimer, Iowa who says he plans to open a new oat processor ...

Results from the annual Iowa Nutrient Research & Education Council crop survey show Iowa farmers planted more than 3.8 ...

Results from the annual Iowa Nutrient Research & Education Council crop survey show Iowa farmers planted more than 3.8 ...

Nestled in the rolling farmland of central Washington is the small, un-assuming town of Odessa. Established in 1902, primarily by immigrants with cent ...

For instance, using cabbages as cover crops in Wales and Lower Saxony, Germany, decreases bacteria, fungi and nematodes affecting sugar beets. Oat cover crops have also been known to limit nematodes ...

Gareth Culligan’s goal is to enhance soil structure and health through the use of cover crops, while also providing food for ...

The recent rains also might lead to more cover crop planting, Vittetoe said. Farmers planted rye, oats and other cover crops on about 17 percent of the state's total crop acres each of the past two ...

Results from the annual Iowa Nutrient Research & Education Council crop survey show Iowa farmers planted more than 3.8 million acres of cover crops in the 2023 crop year. Please log in, or sign up for ...

Iowa farmers who seeded cover crops this fall may have to wait until spring before seeing their fields carpeted in green, as ...