The growth in cover cropping may soon hit a ceiling: planting millions of acres of cover crops will require huge extensions of land to produce cover crop seed. Between 3 and 6% of the 92 million acres of cropping land currently used for corn in the U.S. may be required to produce cover crop seed for that land area. Read more in this article from Seed World.

Yoplait is the latest General Mills brand to support the company’s commitment to advance regenerative agriculture on 1 million acres of farmland.

A meta-analysis of 226 experiments showed that intercropping can increase yields by 16-29% while reducing fertilizer use by 19-36%, according to scientists at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands.

For this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by FR8STAR, we’ll hear excerpts from a conversation with Wolford, N.D. no-tiller Paul Overby and General Mills’ Senior Research Agronomist Tom Rabaey in which they talk about the General Mills Regenerative Agriculture pilot program.

Planting green has never been more popular. Growers’ interest in planting green is increasing, according to the results of the first-ever Cover Crop Benchmark Study conducted by Cover Crop Strategies.

Planting a cover crop between the main growing seasons can offer many benefits for soil health and sustainable food production but getting the timing right on establishment can be tricky. Analysis of satellite imagery by researchers at the University of Twente in the Netherlands suggests interseeding in corn is necessary to get the optimal growth.

North Dakota State University Extension shares some suggestions and considerations for planting cover crops on prevent-planting acres in 2020.

One important benefit of cover crops to our production system is providing an alternative selection pressure on weed populations. Cereal rye has the best potential to suppress weeds because it accumulates more biomass than other cover crop species. Read more in this article from Iowa State University Extension.

Once harvest is completed in the fall, many growers want to take a big sigh of relief—that year’s cropping season is finished. But for those who want to take advantage of cover crops, wrapping up harvest means it’s time to dust off the drill.

U.S. senators on Thursday introduced a bipartisan bill that would direct the Agriculture Department to help farmers, ranchers and landowners use carbon dioxide-absorbing practices to generate carbon credits, a rare collaboration on climate change, according to Reuters.