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Broad Acre Crops · Holistic Management · Legumes · Maize/Corn · Soil Health · Soybeans · World Ag News

Capturing Sunlight, Building Carbon with Strip Cropping and Interseeding

Strips of soybeans alternate with strips of corn on Marty Weiss’ farm in Beaver Dam, Wis. “My goal with strip-cropping is to capture sunlight, which leads to more carbon capture and soil
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Broad Acre Crops · Legumes · Maize/Corn · Soybeans · World Ag News

Too Much Potassium Can Sometimes Ding Corn, Soybean Yields

New research suggests heavy applications of potassium can sometimes hurt corn and soybean yields.
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Broad Acre Crops · Maize/Corn · Soil Health · World Ag News

Assimilation of coupled microwave/thermal infrared soil moisture profiles into a crop model for robust maize yield estimates over Southeast United States

The goal of this study was to determine if assimilation of satellite-driven SM profiles can improve crop model yield estimations in a commonly used crop model while reducing the reliance on field
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Broad Acre Crops · Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Maize/Corn · Soil Health · World Ag News

Maize trials show soil benefits of undersown grass mixes

Undersowing maize with companion grass mixes can provide an effective way to prevent compaction during harvest, while also reducing nutrient loss.
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Broad Acre Crops · Maize/Corn · Soil Health · World Ag News

Six years of conservation agriculture and nutrient management in maize–mustard rotation

Conservation agriculture (CA) is being advocated as an alternative to conventional tillage based systems, as it not only holds the potential to enhance soil biological properties, but could also sustain production in
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Broad Acre Crops · Cereals · Maize/Corn · Winter Wheat · World Ag News

Quantifying the compensatory effect of increased soil temperature under plastic film mulching on crop growing degree days in a wheat–maize rotation system

Plastic film mulching (PM) has a compensatory effect on crop growing degree days by increasing soil temperature. However, only few studies addressed the question whether a terminal time for the compensatory effect
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Broad Acre Crops · Maize/Corn · Soil Health · World Ag News

Crop productivity, soil health, and energy dynamics of Indian Himalayan intensified organic maize-based systems

The sustainability of conventional agricultural production systems in the rainfed ecosystems of the Himalayan region is threatened by triple challenges of declining farm productivity and profitability, shrinking natural resources, and energy crises.
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Broad Acre Crops · Maize/Corn · World Ag News

Corn Yields Are Up, But More Vulnerable to Drought Than Ever: Study

Corn yields have set records in five of the last seven years, which should mean promising days ahead for one of the country’s most important crops. But a new study from Stanford
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Broad Acre Crops · Maize/Corn · World Ag News

[Podcast] 60 Inch Wide Corn Rows Can Triple Your Bottom Line

Retired engineer Bob Recker is an expert on wide row corn. In this week’s podcast, Recker explains why dedicating half of your corn growing space can triple …
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Broad Acre Crops · Cover Crops · Maize/Corn · World Ag News

Pasture Cropping with Colin Seis

In this episode of Ground Cover the Smartsoil team took a trip to NSW to meet Colin Seis, the co-creator of ‘Pasture Cropping’
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