Climate-smart practices include techniques that build soil carbon, like cover-cropping, not tilling fields after harvest and adding biochar or finely ground silicate rock to soils; and those that ...

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 ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. - Healthy soils help regulate water flow, sustain plant and animal life, filter and buffer potential pollutants, cycle nutrients and provide physical stability and support. Healthy ...

A study led by researchers at the Agroecosystem Sustainability Center (ASC) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign quantifies the soil organic carbon (SOC) benefits from cover crops in ...

The mounting challenges to global food security--in the form of shifts in dietary patterns, soil degradation, and increasing ...

New findings share how prescribed fire and no-till management impact soil microbes. In some ways, farming is like cooking. Cooking would be much easier if we could leave the kitchen after eating and ...

MINOT, N.D. — Dry conditions and following recommended production practices combined to result in a canola production year in which disease pressures were relatively low in North Dakota. Chapara was ...

A 60-year study covering 205 countries and regions worldwide has systematically uncovered the evolutionary patterns of ...

This is the third part of a four-part series examining the promise of cover crops, the potential for them to meet the nation’s environmental goals that rest on their success, and the possible pitfalls ...

2024 JAN 31 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Agriculture Daily-- Data detailed on Agriculture - Crop Insurance have been presented. According to news originating from Ames, Iowa, by ...