You’ve just finished harvesting a bumper crop of corn in your garden and it’s time to put the garden to bed for the season.

Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil ...

However, growing cover crops for one growing season may not result in noticeable differences in crop yields. Cover crop roots not only break up compaction; they inject organic matter into the soil.

But most research has studied the effects of the carbon added to soil via the roots and biomass of the overwintering plants, Huang said. “We think a lot about how cover crops affect soil carbon levels ...

American Farmland Trust focuses on protecting farmland, keeping farmers on the land and promoting sound farming practices.

Heskett says cover crops create a habitat for pollinators ... and allow it to better infiltrate the soil to get down deep to the crop roots. “As far as benefits to the soil, soil health ...

You’ve just finished harvesting a bumper crop of corn in your garden, and it’s time to put the garden to bed for the season. You dig out the old roots, ...

His research focuses on understanding factors limiting crop productivity, particularly corn and soybeans. He developed the ...