HAMPTON — Deciding the most effective way to kill a cover crop can be a challenge. Winter-killing, tilling, mowing and herbicides are four common methods, but not all work equally well with all types ...

Becerra-Alvarez’s research began with an oat-crimson clover mixture -- 80 pounds per acre of oat to 40 pounds per acre of ...

No-till planting of sweet corn into a killed winter rye cover crop has the potential to provide soil health benefits such as reduced compaction, improved soil water holding capacity, reduced ...

ABERDEEN, S.D. - Cover crops are a relatively new thing in the region's agriculture, and they carry special challenges for organic producers who don't have chemical solutions to fall back on to ...

Last summer, veteran organic farmer Scott Park was bewildered when he surveyed his vast tomato, corn, and sunflower fields. Before planting the crops on 350 acres he had radically cut down on tilling ...

Tilling is as synonymous with farming and gardening as compost and muddy boots. It’s used to eliminate weeds and break up hard soil so that tender seedlings may grow. So, it may come as a surprise ...

Cover crop treatments were grown during the summer (July through October) followed by no-till transplanted onions in the fall for overwinter production (November to May). The field experiment was ...

About a dozen years ago, Ben Cramer of Healy, Kansas, came back to his family’s farm. His dad was considering retirement and some things needed to change. “He’d been running on old equipment because ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Organic farmers in western Canada rely on tillage to control weeds and incorporate crop residues that could plug mechanical weed-control ...

Whether it’s machinery, soil fertility or weed control, no-till farming can be a challenge for newcomers. But the technique also has the potential to offer many benefits, from improved soil health to ...

Allowing cover crops to grow two weeks longer in the spring and planting corn and soybean crops into them before termination is a strategy that may help no-till farmers deal with wet springs, ...