Every fall after the growing season, I like to put the vegetable garden to bed for the winter with a cover crop of winter rye. Broadly speaking, a cover crop is a crop that covers the soil with a ...

Planting edible beans into winter rye has environmental and potential yield benefits, a North Dakota State University Extension study said. The rye reduces soil erosion, suppresses weeds and soaks up ...

Between spring thaw and soybean planting, the risk of soil nitrogen loss is great. As soil temperatures warm, soil microbes become active and start decomposing organic matter. Nitrogen released during ...

David Karki of SDSU underlined that planting cover crops like rye is not so much about big yield increases, but it will make the land more tolerant of fluctuations in weather. David Karki, a South ...

For farmers trying to Flip their Soil and improve soil health one simple thing they can do this fall is plant cereal rye as a cover crop and plant soybeans into that stand. Soil health experts say ...

In this 2007 photo from The Times-Picayune archive, longtime season ticket holder Edgar Cretin, 80, of Covington trims the giant fleur de lis in his front yard that he planted from winter rye grass ...

See? The fair is gone and so is the terribly hot weather. So now we can feel free to plant any of the fall-blooming annuals you find in nurseries, as well as vegetable transplants. Plant now before ...

Brothers Ross and Levi Brown came back to the family farm near Trent, South Dakota, with some new ideas, and they put them to work not a moment too soon. The brothers, though three years apart, ...