Cover Crops Helped Growers Overcome Drought in 2023

When there is adequate rainfall, cover crops effectively help protect our soils from erosion from wind and hard rain. The residue from ...

Drought - No-Till Farmer

Cover Crops Helped Growers Overcome Drought in 2023. No-tillers share how cover crops affected cash crop growth during challenging times of drought. By ...

Cover Crops in a dry climate: Are they worth the water?

Seeds for Bees™ offers seed mixes that are designed to be most efficient for growing successfully in drought conditions. PAm.'s Pollinator ...

Cover Crops for Every Climate - NRDC

Farmers in water-limited areas often need to be much more proactive about cover crop termination to reduce water usage and prevent seeding.

Can Taller Cover Crops Help Clean the Water in Farm Country?

Stokes enrolled in the Olmsted SWCD program in 2023 to help cover the risk of yet another innovative practice. Through the contract, he agreed ...

Cover crop options for drown-out spots and Prevent Plant

Planting a cover crop in drown-out spots and prevent plant fields will help control weeds and prevent erosion while providing other soil health benefits.

A mixture of grass–legume cover crop species may ameliorate water ...

Cover cropping is a promising practice that can help farmers mitigate and adapt to climate change while also providing ecosystem services (Clark 2007 ...

As climate change threatens farming, incentives for cover crops ...

A 2023 study published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics found that counties with higher rates of cover crop adoption also had ...

cover crop - survey report 2022-2023

... cover crops created a great seedbed for winter squash. Finally, a grower pointed out that cover crop roots helped prevent sidewall smearing in wet conditions.

Understanding the costs and returns of cover crops: What farmers ...

Cover crops can be implemented with a few end uses in mind. Farmers can plant cover crops to prevent erosion and improve soil health, in which ...

COVER CROPPING IN THE SGMA ERA - Sustainable Conservation

growers can minimize their water use by planting drought ... ET tools, they could help growers and their advisors better understand and manage cover crop water ...

How Crop Insurance Prevents Some Farmers From Adapting to ...

In the current farm bill, passed in 2018, the RMA incorporated insurable cover cropping, a widely recognized climate-friendly practice that ...

Cover Cropping to Prevent Erosion - Sound Agriculture

“Cover crops were the beginning of getting into regenerative agriculture for us,” says Ryan Speer of Jacob Farms and Cattle. “When we started ...

Why Cover Crops Are the Solution to Rapid Soil Degradation

Bunch adds that cover crops can attenuate the effects of droughts. “According to scientific research carried out here in Malawi, just using [ ...

SARE/CTIC Cover Crop Surveys

The 2022-2023 survey introduced new questions on integrating livestock into cover crop systems, as well as growing cover crops for seed and participating in ...

Making Your Land More Resilient to Drought | Farmers.gov

In addition, soil health conservation practices, such as reduced- or no-till, cover crops, mulching and residue management can help to make your ...

Cover Crops: Let's Pay Farmers to Protect Our Water

Winter covers crops, like those at The Crows Farm, soak up rains along with the fertilizer leftover after harvest. In the process, the covers ...

How cover crops can help growers beat droughts and floods

The survey also revealed that during 2012-2013's devastating drought in the Midwest, farmers using cover crops saw an average corn yield ...

Behavioral Insights Shaping Farmers' Decisions to Plant Cover Crops

Efforts to shift mental frames around cover cropping could help—for example, emphasizing the known losses (e.g., soil runoff at the next flood) that will ...

Conservation Helps Farms Survive—and Thrive—in Drought - NRDC

By using conservation practices that build healthy soil—like cover cropping, conservation tillage, and compost—growers increase the natural ...