It’s time to think about planting peas. When I think about peas I think of standing in my mother’s northern garden in the summer sunshine eating peas right off the vine. I frequently had to be ...

After you remove finished crops, consider the Southern pea, a delicious and easy-to-grow vegetable you can plant right now. Also known as field peas or cow peas, the Southern pea (Vigna unguiculata) ...

Amid the semiarid grain fields of Kansas, Thomas County farmer Steve Ziegelmeier was searching for an alternative. It was 2008, and Ziegelmeier wanted a bridge crop to plant between dryland corn and ...

Corn and soybeans have been the customary crops for Illinois farmers for decades, but a company from Rochelle wants to introduce a new crop into the mix: field peas. During January, representatives ...

Low commodity prices have renewed interest in potential cash and rotational crops such as yellow field peas. Nebraska Extension linked with Colorado, Kansas and Wyoming Extension specialists and 10 ...

No planting, killing sign Aries/head • Jan. 26-27: VERY fertile, Taurus/neck; above-grounders • Jan. 28-29: Gemini/arms, ...

Three decades ago, when David Oien and three other organic farmers from central Montana began planting lentils, it was a rebellious act. Oien’s farm was surrounded by thousands of acres of wheat, the ...