Crop-insurance discounts for planting cover crops are a good sign for farmers and reflect bipartisanship in the Wisconsin State Legislature. Assembly Bill 727 – now Wisconsin Act 223 –was earlier in ...

Advocates of conservation agriculture have long insisted that farmers who adopt use of practices such as cover cropping and no till or reduced till cultivation can improve the water-holding capacity ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iowa is a nationwide leader in a conservation practice known as cover cropping. For nearly a decade, increases in cover crop ...

Farming is predictably unpredictable, especially now. South Dakota farmers and ranchers like myself are familiar with the many challenges facing production agriculture. The vagaries of markets, ...

A proposed $25-per-acre incentive for cover crops failed to survive the final version of a newly enacted climate law, but some lawmakers are pushing to add a more modest program to the next farm bill.

Aaron Lehman is the president of the Iowa Farmers Union and is a fifth-generation farmer from central Iowa. Iowa is a nationwide leader in a conservation practice known as cover cropping. For nearly a ...