BLOOMING PRAIRIE, Minn. — Growing organic crops is a complicated balancing act with crops, rotations and cultural cropping practices, Mother Nature and man working as teammates and opponents. Tom and ...

ABERDEEN, S.D. - Cover crops are a relatively new thing in the region's agriculture, and they carry special challenges for organic producers who don't have chemical solutions to fall back on to ...

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension and Nebraska OCIA will co-sponsor a no-till organic crop rotation workshop from 1:30 to 4 p.m. on Jan. 11 at Central Community College, 4500 63rd St., Columbus ...

A regulatory requirement that organic farmers must rotate their crops can be a significant financial hurdle for some producers, but it also is becoming an opportunity for economic development as some ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Switching to certain crop rotations to increase the amount of organic carbon stored in soil could eventually result in higher profits ...

In response, organic stakeholders, including growers, consumers, processors, and retailers, have come together around an add-on label that will inform consumers that their organic food has been grown ...

Jonathan and Carolyn Olson’s family farm has been going for more than a century. But within the past 30 years, they’ve made ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... You grew tomatoes successfully in that sunny corner of your garden last year, so why shouldn’t you plant this year’s seedlings in the same spot? It’s ...

Many farmers are well aware that organic farming is a good thing to do. But knowing that something is right and actually implementing it fully are two very different things. Many farmers, even those ...