CropsThe Weed Science Society of America says well-timed fall cover crops can suppress herbicide-resistant weeds and cut herbicide and nitrogen costs, if they build enough biomass.
The Wolfe family's 1,500-acre Fairfield County farm, run on no-till, strip-till and cover crops, has won an Ohio Conservation Farm Family Award.
CropsAn overwinter cover crop of endophytic meadow fescue, rolled and sprayed off before strip-tilled sugar beet, left just 0.3 aphids per plant against five after a standard cover crop in a British Beet Research Organisation trial at Morley Farms, offering growers a non-chemical lever against virus yell
The ninth CTIC/SARE/ASTA survey, released 1 September at the Farm Progress Show from 657 farmers in 46 states, finds average cover-crop acreage of 397.9, a 3.5 bu/ac corn and 1.4 bu/ac soybean yield gain after covers, one in three users grazing them, 16.3% using drones, and 81.6% of farmers paid an
A Natural Resources Conservation Service soil health specialist argues that the yield penalty farmers once suffered when switching to no-till is far less likely today, provided the soil's biology is rebuilt before the change.
The Efficient Fertilizer Consortium's 2026 awards fund university and government teams in the United States, Canada, Denmark and Israel to test enhanced-efficiency fertilisers, biofertilisers, placement and cover crops across corn, soybean, cotton, irrigated and dryland systems under common field-tr
Brett Peshek quit his agronomy job in the pandemic, lost 300 acres of stockpiled forage to hail within a month, and rebuilt his farm around the energy flow of the southern plains, with cattle demoted to short-term grazers.
Ray and Ryan Flickner's 1,000-acre Moundridge farm pairs subsurface drip irrigation laid in 2001 with strip-till, no-till, cover crops, drip lines retrofitted to pivots, an autonomous irrigator and plant sensors, and produced about 26 bushels per inch of water in the dry 2024 season, ten more than
Don Hammersmith of Defiance County went from no-till for lack of time to diverse cover-crop mixes, poultry litter and precise nutrient rates, and now finds a worm in almost every spadeful, earning the new small-farm category of the Ohio Conservation Farm Family Award.
Practical Farmers of Iowa tracked suitable fieldwork days on 38 farms in four states in 2025: on average they matched USDA's figures, but fields with a decade of cover crops showed wider spring windows as Iowa loses one spring workday every six years.
CropsOn 25 June 2026 the US Department of Agriculture announced a final Regenerative Feedstock Rule linking soil-friendly practices on corn, soybeans, sorghum and spring canola to biofuel supply chains, as President Donald Trump signed an executive order on regenerative agriculture.
EnvironmentUSDA's Economic Research Service reported on 30 April 2026 that cover cropping was the top-funded EQIP practice from fiscal 2014 to 2025, ahead of fences, brush management, sprinkler systems and waste-facility roofs and covers.
CropsUSDA's Economic Research Service reported on 16 April 2026 that the share of US cotton acres under double cropping or cover cropping rose from 15 percent in 2003 to 32 percent in 2019, the largest increase among corn, soybean and cotton fields.
