[Link] Soil Microbes Prefer Crop Variety
WHILE RESEARCH on soil microbial health has mainly been done in a lab, greenhouse or in short-term field experiments, University of Illinois crop scie…
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[Link] There Is No Normal Anymore
Climate change has brought a host of challenges to Prairie Road Organic Seed, a family business comprising 480 acres close to the South Dakota border.
[Link] Contrasting long-term temperature trends reveal minor changes in projected potential evapotranspiration in the US Midwest
Warming in the US Midwest is believed to increase the water needed to grow crops. This study finds that, on the contrary, due to rising rainfall and m…
[Link] ‘Less is more’ if you want healthy soils, farmers told
A less intensive approach to cultivation could help farmers protect their greatest asset - the soil.
[Link] 3 Signs Your Soil Microbes May Be Out of Balance
IT’S BECOME widely understood that a single teaspoon of soil contains thousands of different species of microbes, and more than 1 billion individual…
[Link] Living roots are farmer’s nutrient source
Salute Soil Health: Slideshow depicts what long-term no-till and cover crops can accomplish.
[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…
