Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that $150 million in funding is available for agricultural producers through the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), the USDA's largest conservation program.
South West Ag Partners initiates a program to help encourage farmers in Ontario to adopt strip-tillage to help control phosphorus runoff that may be contributing to algae blooms in the Great Lakes.
The university has listed new thresholds for treating pests in corn, soybeans, cotton, wheat and several other crops based on new research and field tests.
Despite the frigid temperatures in northern climates, the soil is still teeming with life and protecting the plant roots, animals and microbes from freezing, says the Soil Science Society of America.
Incorporating cover crops into a rotation can be thought of as a way to mimic perennial systems where nitrogen is rarely lost, says South Dakota State University Extension.
Maryland growers planted a record-setting 492,244 acres of cover crops, which will prevent an estimated 2.95 million pounds of nitrogen and 98,500 pounds of phosphorus from reaching waterways.
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