DES MOINES, Iowa -- Called cover crops, they top the list of tasks U.S. farmers are told will build healthy soil, help the environment and fight climate change. Yet after years of incentives and ...

URBANA -- The Midwest Cover Crops Council (MCCC), in collaboration with University of Illinois Extension, will be holding its annual meeting in Springfield from Feb. 20-21. This is the first time ...

When Minnesotans turn on their kitchen faucets, the water quality might be tied to the health of regional farmland. Some ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — When Steve Stierwalt studied agriculture at the University of Illinois in the 1970s, soil health wasn’t commonly taught or discussed. Faculty often told their young farming ...

Farmers considering cover crops must evaluate goals, timing and water concerns while working with specialists to maximize ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. A free, online tool that helps farmers evaluate cover crop species based on things like county, ...

Ross Evelsizer (left), natural resource projects director with Northeast Iowa Resource Conservation and Development, and Mike Bretz (right), a regenerative farmer in Buchanan County, Iowa, stand in a ...

Earlier this month, significant updates to the Midwest Cover Crops Council’s cover crop selector tool for Minnesota were published. A group of Minnesota researchers, ...

Midwestern grower Chris Von Holten knows that striving to conserve the land and water are the best ways he can build soil health and make the ground more productive. In the early 1980s, Chris Von ...

MALVERN, Iowa (Reuters) - The Black Hawk military helicopter flew over Iowa, giving a senior U.S. agriculture official and U.S. senator an eyeful of the flood damage below, where yellow corn from ...