Michael Vittetoe’s conservation efforts work to synchronize production agriculture with a vibrant ecosystem to produce nutritious food. To say conservation is in Michael Vittetoe’s blood would be an ...

Ross Evelsizer (left), natural resource projects director with Northeast Iowa Resource Conservation and Development, and Mike Bretz (right), a regenerative farmer in Buchanan County, Iowa, stand in a ...

Triple crop soybeans in Illinois? Timing is the key that turns the lock for a heretic farmer on a soybean, pea, and rye threesome. Nonconformity is nature in Bill Jones’ world. In 2020, he ...

MORRIS, Minn. - Given current prices, farmers may be reluctant to give up corn and soybean acres for alternative energy crops, but results from a two-year study of sequential double- and ...

AMES, Iowa – In most of Iowa’s fields, three out of every four acres, farmers rotate annually between planting corn and soybeans. Barely any fields see soybeans year after year, a practice discouraged ...

Research results from across 10 U.S. states found that planting soybean green is a feasible management practice to optimize cereal rye biomass production and provide effective Amaranthus species ...

U. of I. natural resources and environmental sciences researcher Lowell Gentry and his colleagues found that an intensive three-year crop-rotation system reduced nitrate pollution runoff by 50% ...

Few Iowa farmers repeatedly plant soybeans on the same land, a little-researched and long-discouraged practice. But economic factors could lead to increased interest in growing continuous soybeans, so ...