The most reliable source of pasture for livestock is a blend of perennial forages. Perennials have deep and well-established root...
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Brassicas are an excellent addition to many cover crop mixtures because of their ability to suppress weeds and break up...
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Legumes are best known for their ability to form symbiotic relationships with rhizobia bacteria to fix atmospheric nitrogen . Many...
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Soil is an extraordinary, under-appreciated and misunderstood ecosystem. Soil health not only underpins agricultural productivity but also influences watershed function,…
Grasses generally produce the highest yields of all the plant species as well as make up the bulk of many...
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When seeds germinate slowly because of challenging soil or weather conditions, we recognize that this early stress on the young...
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New DNA sequencing technologies have emerged that will soon allow farmers to regularly measure the microbial universe in their soils. …
From Cover-crops to an Original Ecosystem Management Approach. Frédéric Thomas has been a French no-tiller for 30 years. Today, he...
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Minimum Rainfall, Maximum Diversity Jordan Carlson and his father Keith Carlson farm on the eastern edge of the Nebraska sandhills...
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Drought plagued many parts of the country over the past couple years. Dust storms, sweltering heat, raging wildfires, failed crops,…
