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

Triticale is a hybrid of wheat and rye, and it combines the best qualities of both to create a resilient and versatile cover crop. This plant is incredibly cold-hardy and can thrive in a wide ...

1. However, aerial and high-clearance seeding works for covers that have a longer establishment window, such as oats, triticale, cereal rye and radishes.” Seed for cover crop species that can be ...

Examples of typical and not-so-common cover crops used in corn and soybean rotations were featured in a recent plot tour on ...

Evidence is building that regenerative agriculture boosts soil health, which, in turn, could bolster food security.

Farmers and researchers are also evaluating the potential of hybrid rye varieties and triticale varieties in comparison to OP rye cover crop varieties. Cereal Rye Cover Crop Seeding While seeding rate ...

It is a bunch type grass with upright tillers just like wheat and rye. Leaves are rolled in the whorl. Triticale has a spike with one spikelet per node each containing several florets. The stems grow ...

The Conservation Agriculture in Crop-Livestock Systems (CLCA) project, funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), involved National Agricultural Research and Extension ...

Everybody seems to be talking about cover crops. Rightfully so because, managed correctly, they can provide environmental benefits. Higher yield? Well, maybe, but probably not, at least in the ...

Cancel anytime. Crimson clover (left) and oat seedlings (right) Q • I’ve read that planting a cover crop in fall can be good for a vegetable garden, but I don’t know much about it.

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While many farmers are growing cover crops over winter before spring crops, there is also the possibility of establishing a catch crop between harvest and an autumn ...