Mt. Pleasant resident Kelly Chamberlain smelled it when he was at Riverwood on Wednesday. Chamberlain posed a question on social media, asking what smelled like rotting animals. He got a lot of ...

Cover cropping is limited by seasonal constraints following corn harvest in the Upper Midwest of the United States. Grass, clover, and brassica cover crops can be interseeded in corn; however, this is ...

From mitigating soil compaction and reducing erosion, to adding nutrients to soil and suppressing weeds, there are many reasons to plant fall cover crops.

Tolerant Varieties, Oilseed Radish Cover Crop Extended Rotation Comprise Sylvester Plan Sugarbeet cyst nematode (SBCN) has been around the Michigan and Ontario growing region for a long time. It was ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Summer is winding down here in the Valley as school reopen, it gets dark a little sooner every night and college football season begins. As you preserve ...

Summer’s heat is definitely here, and your garden is probably firing on all cylinders, working on creating delicious, fresh vegetables for you to enjoy this summer and to stock away for winter ...

Farmers are digging in for a hands-on battle against soil erosion in Rock Island County. Cover crops like oilseed radishes replenish the soil by depositing nutrients and protecting the land. Fall ...

BURLEY • Sugar beets have not been the most soil-friendly crop to grow. In the old days, soil was pulverized to make a fine seedbed for the small seeds. That practice has given way as more growers ...

Franky R. G. Terras, Hilde M. E. Schoofs, Karin Thevissen, Rupert W. Osborn, Jozef Vanderleyden, Bruno P. A. Cammue and Willem F. Broekaert Although thionins and 2S albumins are generally considered ...

No one I know loves radishes like my father loved them. He munched them whole and salted one after the other as a snack or sliced between two pieces of buttered bread with a sprinkling of salt and ...