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The country’s oat and rye producers can now benefit from revenue protection, a new crop insurance option available through the USDA.  After listening to growers, the Risk Management Agency expanded the Small Grains Crop Provisions to offer revenue protection for 2023 oat and rye crops.   “This ...

Cover crops aren’t just for your fields anymore, they are beneficial to your garden, too. The University of Illinois Extension said using cover crops in the home garden has many benefits, including soil structure, drawing nutrients up from deep in the soil, and increasing soil fertility. Cove ...

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 ...

A new study by a WSU researcher has shown that the public cannot tell the difference between bourbon and rye.   Assistant Professor Tom Collins says they had a test group separate a set of bourbon and rye based on their senses.   “What we found was some separation based on the producer and then there was also some separation based on the age of the whiskeys and the alcohol strength.”   Colli... Re