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Beyond the Acres: Making Cover Crops Work

Beyond the Acres: Making Cover Crops Work

Each year, the National Cover Crop Survey offers a useful glimpse into where cover crops are used across the country and how farmers manage them. As someone who has spent much of my career working directly with farmers, first as an independent crop consultant and now as a conservation agronomist, I like to look  beyond the numbers and percentages and focus on what the results tell us about how farmers are making cover crops work.

Oct 7, 2026

Torey Colburn

Know Your Soil to Strengthen Your Land

Know Your Soil to Strengthen Your Land

There is a lot we can learn from a field by taking a closer look at the soil. For farmers and others who depend on the soil to produce, it’s standard to look outward for the best advice or most popular solutions to ensure the soil will behave accordingly. This search for the “best” or chasing new trends is inefficient and can lead to highly varied results.  Before changing an agricultural management practice, like tillage or cover crops, or deciding what support might help, it is worth slowing down and asking what the soil is showing us.

Aug 20, 2026

Casey Kula

Helping New England Livestock Farmers to Thrive

Helping New England Livestock Farmers to Thrive

Discover how American Farmland Trust's Integrated Whole Farm Planning Pilot is helping New England livestock farmers strengthen farm viability through business planning, conservation support, succession planning, and peer networks that build long-term resilience.

Jul 27, 2026

Emeran Irby

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