According to the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy, an initiative aimed at reducing nitrogen and phosphorus runoff into Iowa’s ...

Regenerative agriculture methods, such as cover crops, are one way farmers try to improve the health of their overworked soil ...

Farmers planting cover crops for better water filtration and weed suppression also have to factor in the challenges, which include time, cost, risk and labor. Doug Adams, who farms in north-central ...

A new five-year study is quantifying the benefits of conservation practices such as cover cropping using data from farmers across Wisconsin. Researchers say the project is one of the region’s most ...

The Midwest Cover Crop Council’s cover crop decision tool was recently updated for Iowa. This winter a group of Iowan researchers, agency staff, seed dealers, and farmers came together to provide ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — When Steve Stierwalt studied agriculture at the University of Illinois in the 1970s, soil health wasn’t commonly taught or discussed. Faculty often told their young farming ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. A free, online tool that helps farmers evaluate cover crop species based on things like county, ...

Beef producers and industry professionals looking to sharpen their management skills and decision-making tools are invited to participate in the Midwest FEEDS (Forage, Education and Efficiency in ...

Since 2021, EQIP contracts for "climate-smart" practices have increased above general practices in all 12 Midwest states with ...

That explains why the critters were 4’s and 5’s on body score when we finished up grazing the cabbage patch. They were ...

Inside a barn in southwest Missouri, Macauley Kincaid operates a massive contraption of wood and metal affixed with pipes, pulleys and wheels. "This was like state of the art for its time. I mean, ...