Farmers should wait until soil is ready for anhydrous application
A warm, dry fall helped many farmers make quick work of fields, leaving them more time to apply fertilizer, seed cover crops, and think through their needs for the 2023 season.
A warm, dry fall helped many farmers make quick work of fields, leaving them more time to apply fertilizer, seed cover crops, and think through their needs for the 2023 season.
The Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer index declined 5 points to 112 from September which was 5 points lower than a month earlier. Weaker sentiment regarding current conditions was the primary driver of this month’s decline in the barometer — Current Conditions Index declined to 109, 9 points lower than in August.
American Farmland Trust and the Natural Resource Conservation Service have signed a two-year, $2 million cooperative agreement to further develop and improve AFT’s soil health economic, and environmental tools.
When it comes to adding carbon to the soil, all cover crops don’t perform equally, according to a team of researchers at Penn State University whose new study revealed the disparity for the first time.
A field trial showed how leading varieties of nitrogen-fixing legumes performed in the challenging growing conditions of the Mississippi Delta.
The U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards program recognizes seven individuals, businesses, and partnerships that have gone above and beyond the call of duty.
Promoting early season plant cover, primarily through the use of cover crops, can be more effective at reducing pest density than insecticide applications.
Researchers are trying to quantify aboveground and belowground effects of annual cover crops and living mulches compared to a no-till bare ground system.
Here are a few ways cover crops enhance soil health, which is all about the capacity of the soil to function as a vital living ecosystem.
Cover crops may also provide important habitat for predatory insects that could help control disease- and damage-causing pests in cotton.