6 Cover Crops Your Cows Can Graze This Fall and Winter After a year of drought and weather challenges, some cattle farmers are putting in extra cover crops this fall to ease the forage burden. Here’s ...

Do Cover Crops Pay? Evaluate Your ROI in These Two Ways Everybody seems to be talking about cover crops. Rightfully so because, managed correctly, they can provide environmental benefits. Higher ...

Livestock producers are invited to a field day on cattle, pasture, hay, and crops in Clark County on Saturday, July 26, 2025.

Many cover crops can work for forage supply, but the selection of which cover crop to use will depend on when you want to plant it and what is the purpose. Usually cover crops are planted from July ...

To support cover crop adoption in the Midwest, Practical Farmers of Iowa and the Iowa Soybean Association are excited to offer their Cover Crop Business Accelerator (CCBA) program.

Incorporating cover crops into their regenerative farming system has been a learning process for the Riskedal family this ...

The new cover crop seeder option provides economical one-pass planting and incorporation with the Rolling Harrow soil conditioner by itself, or combined with a lead tillage tool for enhanced ...

Most pastures are heading into a dormant stage, where cool-season grasses do not grow as rapidly. Producers may want to look into warm-season grasses to boost pasture usage, says Rebecca Vittetoe, ...

How do centipedes and millipedes respond to grazing intensity in an integrated crop-livestock system with soybean-pasture succession?

The EPA data on agriculture's role in carbon emissions only tells half the story. It counts what’s coming out of the barn, ...

Cover crops are grown before spring crops in a rotation that alternates winter and spring crops. “That way we’re growing six crops in four years – four harvested, two grazed.

A cover crop, like alfalfa, can suppress weed growth because if sown thickly enough, it will grow to cover the surface of the soil. This means that the ground is shaded from the sun, and the weed ...