Following last year’s record-setting drought, some Vigo County, Ind., farmers have turned to cover crops to help trap nitrogen in the ground to benefit this year’s crops.

Brian Crowther of McPherson is being recognized for farming practices he began over a decade ago.

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey recently announced that 117 Iowa farmers took advantage of changes this year to the Iowa Financial Incentives Program, which is commonly called state cost share, to install 4,660 acres of cover crops across the state.

Land application of manure creates conditions conducive to significant environmental losses of nutrients.

Here is a summary and analysis of Special Provisions for cover crops to the common crop insurance policy for the 2013 cropping year for the Upper Midwest and Northern and Central Great Plains states.

A tillage study was established in 1981 at the University of Nebraska Rogers Memorial Farm, 10 miles east of Lincoln, to gain experience with various tillage systems.