Rapeseed is a popular cover crop choice due to its deep-growing taproot, which creates soil macropores and increases water infiltration. Brassicaceae spp. that are mature or at later growth stages can ...

CLARA CITY - Winter can come hard to the Minnesota prairie, but never so early that cover crops cannot be used to improve and protect the soil. "We do have the potential here,'' said Holly Hatlewick, ...

HAMBURG - The recent dry weather could reduce the European Union's 2015 rapeseed crop following a record harvest last year, analysts said on Wednesday. Rapeseed, the main oilseed for vegetable oil and ...

Strategie Grains raised its forecasts for this year's rapeseed crop in the European Union, citing better than expected harvests, which would add to already large world supplies, eventually weighing on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For an Earth-friendly garden, keep a succession of plants in the soil by planting cover crops. These are plants grown to improve the soil rather than for ...

PARIS - Widespread showers over the past week in Western Europe boosted rapeseed crop development after a dry and hot summer, but the drought prompted farmers to sow less of the oilseed than initially ...