As you pass by farm fields this autumn season, you may wonder why farmers are planting again, even though the harvest has ...

All eyes at the Farm Progress Show on Wednesday were on a new crop that is making farming more sustainable. The Illinois Soybean Association demonstrated cover crops to farmers and its Director of ...

Chickpea plant that is nitrogen-fixing and drought-tolerant blooming in a field - Sean Gallup/Getty Images Because they are primarily grown for food, you may not think of the chickpea (Cicer arietinum ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management agency has agree to move up the date for the haying, grazing or chopping cover crops to Sept. 1 in certain North Dakota and South ...

Because they are primarily grown for food, you may not think of the chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) as a useful cover crop. Indeed, chickpea is the world's fourth largest grown legume crop, but it's ...