Green manures include legumes such as vetch, clover, beans and peas; grasses such as annual ryegrass, oats, rapeseed, winter wheat and winter rye; and buckwheat. Some gardeners sow cover crops plants ...
Funding for America’s Heartland is provided by US Soy, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education, Rural Development Partners, and a Specialty Crop Grant from the California Department of Food and ...
“Seeding depth is one of the challenges with mixes. Planting at the correct depth is important to ensure the cover crop germinates rapidly or even germinates at all,” says Hayes. “In a few instances, ...
An innovative experiment growing perennial cereal grains and legumes in the same fields is sprouting benefits for crop performance and sustainability, according to a new University of Alberta ...
to the crop, assuming the soil contains ... the implications of reducing nitrogen rates on oats. Unfortunately, 2023 was an abnormal growing season in Saskatchewan, so the results were a bit ...
The study includes 18 different crops and primary land-use categories: winter wheat, winter barley, winter rye, other winter cereals, spring wheat, spring barley, spring oats, maize, beans/lupins/peas ...
“If you’re going to grow crops, there’s going to be some ... Aerially sowing a winter cover crop of oats or rye into mature corn fields would cover soil with plants for the months between ...