Resources

Cover Crops for Michigan: Red Clover

Published on May 12, 2025
Red clover is a vigorous cool-season legume cover crop. When planted early enough in the season, red clover overwinters well and can produce nitrogen.
Cover Crops for Michigan: Sunflower

Published on May 12, 2025
Sunflower is a quick-growing warm season annual broadleaf cover crop with deep roots that improve soil compaction and scavenge soi nutrients. Sunflowers are great additions to multi-species cover crop mixes.
Rolling Kneeler Cart Design Plans

Published on January 21, 2025
Michigan AgrAbility sponsored a 2024 Mechanical Engineering capstone project for a client in need of a rolling kneeler cart, leading to the development and prototyping of a motorized cart that can move up to 0.34 feet per second.
Lessons From Long Term Research: Comparing No-Till to Conventional Tillage Over 30 years

Published on January 9, 2025
A summary of over 30 years of research by KBS LTER that measured yield, profitability, soil aggregation, carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas emissions and soil moisture in tilled and no-tilled fields.
Herramientas de programación de riego

Published on July 31, 2024
La programación de riego proporciona información acerca del momento y la cantidad de agua necesaria para satisfacer las necesidades del cultivo.
An Introduction to Regenerative Field Crop and Grazing Systems

Published on July 11, 2024
The need for more resilient food and farming systems has never been greater, causing more people to consider regenerative agricultural practices to improve productivity, profitability, and environmental outcomes.
Prairie Strip Partial Budget Tool

Published on June 10, 2024
This partial budget tool is an editable spreadsheet made to determine gains and losses from converting row crop areas to restored prairie.
Budgeting for Prairie Strips

Published on June 10, 2024
This bulletin shows how to calculate where and how prairie strips can be a financial benefit to the farm operation.
Soil Microbial Community Dynamics Across Michigan Farms

Published on February 26, 2024
Soil health is an important concept that has grown exponentially in the public and private sectors over the past decades.
Smart Gardening: Don’t Guess - Soil Test!

Published on December 22, 2023
Get Your Home Lawn and Garden Soil Test Kit Today.