While cover crops offer advantages such as improved soil health, reduced erosion, and a lower need for chemical fertilizers, ...

Cover crops need to be terminated in time for the following cash crop to properly grow. ... sees cover crops as a way to avoid the concerns about using food crops for fuel.

Imagine that you own a small, 20-acre farm in California's Central Valley. You and your family have cultivated this land for ...

LA CROSSE, Wis. — Jeffrey Moyer told a nearly full audience at his recent Organic Farming Conference workshop to think of their farms in a new way: Focus first on cover crops, then cash crops.

Policy-makers must recognise that an over-dependence on cash crops and mono-cropping have driven a food systems imbalance that has resulted in economic decline, environmental destruction and death.

Construction is slated to begin this spring on a 1.2-megawatt solar array on the Kominek farm. Some 3,300 solar panels will rest on 6-foot and 8-foot-high stilts, providing shade for crops like ...

A $650,000 award grant from the National Institutes for Food and ... of the variation for root traits that exists among diverse cover crop species and their influence on soil and cash crops. ...

Overlooked now, they were once valued as food crops. Canada wildrye is a tallgrass species attaining average heights of 4 feet and preferring moist areas and silty loam to sandy soils; whereas ...

The Food Bank Council of Michigan is asking the state to up its budget from $2 million to $20 million to buy excess crops from farmers. In recent months, food banks have been strained by high need ...

Our study showed that climate change is reducing consumable food calories by around 1% yearly for the top 10 global crops. This may sound small, but it represents some 35 trillion calories each year.