Here’s the top six cover crops Midwest cattle farmers are using to stretch fall and winter grazing. Cereal rye is one of the top cover crops used in the U.S. for both agronomic and grazing. It is ...

Test your knowledge about cereal rye cultivation with this quiz! Cereal rye is a versatile grain crop grown worldwide for its grain, as a cover crop, and for forage. This quiz will cover various ...

2023a, 2023b; Price and Norsworthy, 2013; Price et al., 2021), specifically cereal rye (Secale cereale L.) (Kumari et al., 2024a, 2024b). Additionally, cover crops provide soil health benefits such as ...

Cereal Rye for Cover Cropping in Organic Farming (from “Managing Cover Crops Profitably ... Iowa State University Extension CROP 3104 No-Till Case Study, Miller Farm: Restoring Grazing Land with Cover ...

Two Exira residents received the Master Researcher Award last month from Practical Farmers of Iowa for their extensive ...

He also hired a grazing consultant to advise him. “Our consultant had lived in New Zealand ... For example, if forage is short early in the growing season, Gompert suggests that producers plant a ...

Seeding winter cereals “ultra-early” in the spring can hedge against drought by offering an alternative feed source, ...

Planting other forage species between corn rows might offer better feed than corn grazing alone, but there are challenges to ...

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 ...

Grazing sheep under the panels of huge solar farms is proving to have multiple benefits. As well as maintaining the ground, it improves soil quality, reduces flooding, and makes the sheep happier ...

Glacier FarmMedia - Intercropping can have significant benefits for extended grazing cattle on shoulder seasons, says Emma ...