legumes

Farmers continue to plant more cover crops. According to Reuters those include everything from grasses like rye and oats to legumes and radishes. Some of them get converted to biofuels or fed to cattle, but most aren’t harvested because they’re more valuable when they break down in the soil. Rob My ...

Could plants hold the key, or at least the templet, when it comes to the Ag community reducing its dependency on man-made fertilizers? . Researchers at Washington State University have transferred a collection of genes into plant-colonizing bacteria that let them draw nitrogen from the air and turn it into ammonia; a natural fertilizer ...

The U.S. and Canada have filed a WTO counternotification on India's market prices supports on some pulse exports, such as chickpeas.  Rod Bain said India has typically been one of the strongest destinations for American pulses, particularly chickpeas and lentils.  ...

The 2018 PNW Crop Tour gets underway Tuesday in the Horse Heaven Hills area, and runs through early July.  These field days allows growers to interact with Washington State University personnel and other about cereal varieties, crop management and much more.  Th...