Farmers and ranchers have until Feb. 3 to submit initial applications for the Conservation Stewardship Program to the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS).
With over 2,000 farmers participating in the fourth annual survey, results once again showed that corn and soybean yields increased following cover crops.
Washington State University researchers offer a new publication to explain how soil pH affects root diseases and provide recommendations on mitigating adverse effects.
Kansas State University Extension shares some detailed directions for measuring bulk density in soils to both analyze the effects of different management practices on soil quality and quantify the differences in soil density at various depths within the soil.
The National Wildlife Federation is accepting applications for farmers and conservation professionals to conduct outreach to promote cover crops and provide region-specific information and farming knowledge to farmers and crop advisors.
University of Illinois Extension warns that current expectations of what this technology can accomplish tend to be a bit more optimistic than what the technology will actually be able to deliver.
While most soil health indicators demonstrated no significant differences among the treatments, cover crops grown for carbon ranked the highest for the Haney test, says University of Nebraska Extension.
South Dakota State University Extension buried mens' white cotton briefs in different tillage systems and viewed their decompositions as a comparison in the soil microbiology levels.
Variable-rate seeding, or VRS, is the practice of dynamically adjusting the amount of seeds planted in areas of fields based on location-specific information on fertility and other factors that affect yield.
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