Rye has played an important role throughout history, Laura Valli says . “Humans never deliberately chose to cultivate it, but it first occurred in fields of wheat and barley in what’s contemporary ...

Between spring thaw and soybean planting, the risk of soil nitrogen loss is great. As soil temperatures warm, soil microbes become active and start decomposing organic matter. Nitrogen released during ...

Every fall after the growing season, I like to put the vegetable garden to bed for the winter with a cover crop of winter rye. Broadly speaking, a cover crop is a crop that covers the soil with a ...

David Karki of SDSU underlined that planting cover crops like rye is not so much about big yield increases, but it will make the land more tolerant of fluctuations in weather. David Karki, a South ...

Early research shows winter barley's allelopathic compounds are more effective than cereal rye at slowing growth of waterhemp ...

Cereal rye grain possesses many uses within crop and livestock production. Growers make rye part of their corn-soybean crop rotation to boost yields, while ranchers needing an alternative feed might ...

These days when you say rye in Kentucky most people think about whiskey, as they should. But some farmers, agricultural researchers, environmentalists, brewers, chefs and bakers are trying to broaden ...