APPLEGATE, Ore. — Garett Long, director of agriculture at Troon Vineyard, said cover crops attract pollinators, provide habitat for armies of beneficial insects, improve soil health and increase ...
As a perennial crop, grape production implicates many practices that deplete soil health and decrease or limit vine productivity. A majority of the vineyards in the Lake Erie grape region have been in ...
New research carried out over three years in Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc vineyard by grape grower Kirsty Harkness and viticulture researcher Dr. Mark Krasnow has found that hemp is a viable cover crop ...
Sonoma County grape growers weighing a shift to regenerative practices now have some hard numbers to work with. A study ...
No one knows who first invented the idea of using cover crops to protect soil in agriculture fields, but by 6000 B.C. farmers ...
Maybe after you finish your vegetable harvest, you mentally say, “I’m done this year,” and wait to start again next year. But a cover crop could benefit you in several ways. By researching now, you ...
What’s cover cropping all about, anyway? As with many eco initiatives, what was old is new again: Cover crops (or fallow season plantings; see more below) were first used during the Roman Empire as a ...
A field planted with cereal rye, one of the most common cover crops in Iowa. Photo by Ally Larson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons ...
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