FARGO - Field peas (Pisum sativum L.), native to southwest Asia, were among the first crops brought under cultivation by man. The largest acreages of field peas in the U.S. are in North Dakota, Idaho, ...

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 ...

Many of the vegetables we planted back in March and April have finished or are finishing production now. Despite the intense heat of mid- to late-summer, there are delicious, heat-tolerant vegetables ...

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 ...

Common names: Southern peas, cow peas, field peas, black-eyes and crowders. Latin name: Vigna unguiculata. Varieties: California Black-eye No.5 (resistant to root-knot nematodes), Pinkeye Purplehull, ...

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 ...