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Bright yellow mustard blooming across a wide field used as a cover crop to improve soil health and help farmers save money.Bright yellow mustard blooming across a wide field used as a cover crop to improve soil health and help farmers save money.

6 Ways Cover Crops Save You Money

Various squash varieties with oblong smooth yellow and green fruits, round ribbed bright orange, and yellow-green fruits are arranged in a wooden box set in a garden surrounded by large pumpkin foliage.Various squash varieties with oblong smooth yellow and green fruits, round ribbed bright orange, and yellow-green fruits are arranged in a wooden box set in a garden surrounded by large pumpkin foliage.

11 Tasty and Easy to Grow Squash Varieties

Dry seedpods of foxglove, veronica, lavender, and corn lie scattered on a wooden table, each revealing tiny seeds ready to save farm seeds for the next planting season.Dry seedpods of foxglove, veronica, lavender, and corn lie scattered on a wooden table, each revealing tiny seeds ready to save farm seeds for the next planting season.

Saving Seeds on the Farm: Building Resilience

The highest-yielding cover crop features vertical, flexible stems with paired leaves and clusters of elongated, plump pods.The highest-yielding cover crop features vertical, flexible stems with paired leaves and clusters of elongated, plump pods.

7 Highest-Yielding Cover Crops

Our Favorite Pumpkins to Grow on the Farm

Close-up of young oval beet roots half-emerging from brown soil with upright purple stems and green leaves, showing one of the fall crops to be sown in October.Close-up of young oval beet roots half-emerging from brown soil with upright purple stems and green leaves, showing one of the fall crops to be sown in October.

9 Fall Crops to Sow in October

Close-up of a man's hand holding a small flask filled with dark soil for a post harvest test.Close-up of a man's hand holding a small flask filled with dark soil for a post harvest test.

Post-Harvest Soil Testing: What Your Fields Are Telling You

A field of saline agriculture shows pale, crusted soil with patches of green foliage and clusters of bright yellow blooming mustard flowers.A field of saline agriculture shows pale, crusted soil with patches of green foliage and clusters of bright yellow blooming mustard flowers.

Saline Agriculture: A Promising Approach to Global Farming Challenges

A farmer pour a liquefied biostimulant fertilizer onto a field with growing plants.A farmer pour a liquefied biostimulant fertilizer onto a field with growing plants.

Biostimulants vs. Fertilizers: Key Differences and Impacts on Crop Growth

Field of green soil-feeding cover crop with dense trifoliate leaves and clusters of small white flowers.Field of green soil-feeding cover crop with dense trifoliate leaves and clusters of small white flowers.

9 Soil-Feeding Cover Crops to Plant in September

Close-up of gardener's hands wearing grey gloves holding freshly picked bunch of radishes with oval pink roots and green foliage, highlighting crops to sow in September against a sunny autumn garden background.Close-up of gardener's hands wearing grey gloves holding freshly picked bunch of radishes with oval pink roots and green foliage, highlighting crops to sow in September against a sunny autumn garden background.

9 Crops to Sow in September

Blooming strips of native prairie plants growing between cornfields, helping replenish soil nutrient loss.Blooming strips of native prairie plants growing between cornfields, helping replenish soil nutrient loss.

How to Fight Soil Nutrient Loss with Prairie Strips

A bucket full of freshly picked potatoes in a vegetable garden bed among various crops and tall blooming sunflowers, as one of the wildflowers that fight potato viruses.A bucket full of freshly picked potatoes in a vegetable garden bed among various crops and tall blooming sunflowers, as one of the wildflowers that fight potato viruses.

Fight Potato Viruses with Wildflowers: 9 Flowers to Try

A female gardener with a large garden shovel turns over a large black compost pile of decomposing garden waste and kitchen scraps to speed up composting.A female gardener with a large garden shovel turns over a large black compost pile of decomposing garden waste and kitchen scraps to speed up composting.

How to Speed Up Your Compost: 5 Recommendations

A gardener in white and blue gloves beats weeds from no-till soil in the garden.A gardener in white and blue gloves beats weeds from no-till soil in the garden.

How to Beat the Weeds in a No-Till Landscape

Large clusters of pink grapes hang from stems covered in bright lobed green foliage, showing off one of the best dry farming crops.Large clusters of pink grapes hang from stems covered in bright lobed green foliage, showing off one of the best dry farming crops.

The 7 Best Crops for Dry Farming

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