Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For an Earth-friendly garden, keep a succession of plants in the soil by planting cover crops. These are plants grown to improve the soil rather than for ...

The French start-up Elicit Plant, one of C&EN’s 10 Start-Ups to Watch in 2023, has raised $47 million to commercialize products that help protect crop yields during drought. The products are composed ...

Wondering how and when to terminate your cover crop? Perhaps planting green is right for you. This practice involves planting your corn or soybean crop directly into a cover crop like cereal rye or ...

Plant biostimulants represent a progressive and sustainable strategy in modern agriculture aimed at enhancing crop yield through improvements in nutrient uptake, growth stimulation and increased ...

ST. PAUL -- Controlling weeds can be a battle for corn and soybean farmers, but organic producers face special challenges and higher risks. Weed management for organic crop production falls into two ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Called cover crops, they top the list of tasks U.S. farmers are told will build healthy soil, help the environment and fight climate change. Yet after years of incentives and ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – No one wants to think of harvest’s end as the vegetable garden reaches peak, but now’s the time to plant over-winter cover crops to improve your soil for next season. If you’re not ...