MASON CITY, Iowa -- University; of Wisconsin agronomist Ken Albrecht and his students started looking at corn production in a kura clover living mulch 10 years ago to control soil erosion. Wisconsin ...

Who doesn’t like a two-for-one deal, or a double-double, win-win? A team of USDA scientists in the upper Midwest is working on a double-cropping system that is showing promise as a way to improve a ...

Q • I have a raised vegetable garden at home and don't use any mulch to cover the soil. I heard that clover naturally takes nitrogen from the air and puts it in the soil, so I was thinking about ...

Maintaining a garden can sometimes feel like a full-time job. Between watering and pulling up pesky weeds, your gardening to-do list probably feels endless. Of course, working in the yard is pretty ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A primary challenge of managing vegetable production on a small land base is the maintenance and building of soil quality. Previous studies ...