Farmers, who were unable to get into their soggy fields to plant corn and soybeans due to record rainfall this spring, are not only faced with bags of seed they can't use, they are also looking for ...

LINCOLN (AP) — A central Nebraska farm is tapping into a growing national interest in cover crops, which were popular in organic circles but a rarity among mainstream row-crop producers. Green Cover ...

A decade ago, Keith and Brian Berns had heard about cover crops. Discussion of growing rye or radishes to cover and condition soil tended to pop up at the type of winter meetings held in makeshift ...

Cover crops have been a great tool for many producers across Nebraska as they can be used for managing soil erosion, weeds, moisture accumulation, microbial activity and forage crops for livestock ...

IT’S A FAMILIAR CONCEPT IN THE AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY, BUT A NEW TECHNIQUE IS CHANGING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF HOW IT’S USED IN THIS FORECASTING. OUR FUTURE REPORT, KETV, NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S KALE SEARCY ...

Traditionally, farmers assumed they must kill their cover crop before planting cash crops. But the longer you let a cover crop grow, the more benefits you can harvest. Enter the ‘planting green’ ...

From farmer experiences to agribusiness opportunities and research updates, speakers at the 2017 Nebraska Cover Crops Conference will be addressing a variety of topics pertinent to cover crop growers ...

An overarching goal for planting cover crops is to produce as much biomass as possible during the growing window. Higher levels of cover crop biomass will reduce soil erosion, inhibit weed growth, and ...

Producers can break even in as little as two years But seed, planting costs challenge economics Landowners can frustrate farmers’ cover crop hopes This is the second part of our four-part series ...