Across Olmsted County and beyond, more farmers are planting cover crops and experimenting with systems designed to keep ...
In a new study, scientists report significant strides in transferring disease- and stress-resistance traits from wild relatives of several legumes to their domesticated varieties. Domesticating plants ...
Planting cover crops ahead of corn can be tricky but is not impossible. Learn which species work, which don’t and how much ...
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Tepary beans -- a high protein legume common to the southwest United States and Mexico -- may hold the key to adapting bean crops for the increasingly harsh conditions brought on by a changing climate ...
April 12 (UPI) --On large farms, traditional crop rotations typically consist of barley, wheat and rapeseed. According to a new study -- published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food ...
A research team has reviewed the potential benefits of integrating legumes into Conservation Agriculture (CA) practices within rice-based systems in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain (EIGP), ...
It’s difficult to overstate the benefits of a cover crop for your garden. In addition to helping replenish the nitrogen in your soil, cover crops also act as habitat for a healthy garden ecosystem and ...
Low domestic production and reliance on imports for pulses, legumes and leguminous oilseeds have seriously affected India’s nutritional security. The green revolution was tweaked to a ...
Domesticating plants to grow as crops can turn out to be a double-edged scythe. On one hand, selecting specific desirable traits, such as high yields, can increase crop productivity. But other ...