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 practices and cover crops are looking to speed up the development of new crop insurance products by going around USDA to start testing coverage for growers who want to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...