[Link] Living roots are farmer’s nutrient source
Salute Soil Health: Slideshow depicts what long-term no-till and cover crops can accomplish.
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[Link] What’s Been Learned About Interseeding Cover Crops into Corn and Soybeans
With the short-season available for growing cover crops after corn harvest, interest in interseeding cover crops into corn and soybean crops has incre…
[Link] A Short Season? Managing Irrigated Pasture in a Drought Year
With the prospect of water reductions, we need to evaluate the resiliency of the forage species and varieties in our pastures. Some grasses are more d…
[Link] How Tissue Tests Can Add Proof to Your Cover Crop Payback
Tissue testing cover crops during planting season can help no-tillers gauge how much biomass and nitrogen covers are contributing to cash crops and th…
[Link] Removing tile water nutrients aims to improve nearby lakes
“We dedicated ourselves to doing what’s best for our soils and our crops 41 years ago,” Kavazanjian says. “All of our conservation and agronom…
[Link] Healing Our Soils, Compost & Compost Tea with Troy Hinke
Soils are the basis of all terrestrial life. A teaspoon of healthy soil contains close to a billion bacteria, many yards of fungi, and thousands of pr…
[Link] New kind of wheat shows promise for cleaning nitrates from soil, water
The perennial wheat Kernza was grown just west of Brainerd on a few acres immediately surrounding wells within corn and soybean fields. Over the past …
[Link] When it Comes to Regenerative Agriculture’s Role in Combating Climate Change, the Science Paves a Clear Path Forward
Extensive literature and hundreds of long-term field experiments across the globe document the capability of regenerative farming practices to increas…
[Link] Scientists Just Discovered a Hidden Pattern in Soil’s Carbon Emissions
Modeling the future consequences of climate change requires a huge number of calculations based on a vast amount of factors, including how well microb…
[Link] Working with Mother Nature: Crop diversity, rotational grazing improve production
“If you take our corn last year, we didn’t use any chemical fertilizers, so our fertilizer bill is zero,” he said. “In fact, if you are using …
