Study: ‘Sustainable intensification’ on the farm reduces soil nitrate losses, maintains crop yields
A nine-year study comparing a typical two-year corn and soybean rotation with a more intensive three-year rotation involving corn, cereal rye, soybean and winter wheat, found that the three-year ...
KSAL8d
Intensify Sorghum Systems With Double-Cropped Soybeans
Kansas State University cropping systems agronomist Kraig Roozeboom and his team initiated a long-term study in 2007 to ...
The Journal14d
K-State study: Double-cropped soybeans can boost profitability, environment
Their rotation started with sorghum ... “It just reinforces the fact that anytime you can intensify the system – even if ...
'Too much of a good thing': Overuse is making Bt corn less effective against rootworm, analysis shows
Widespread planting of corn hybrids designed to combat corn rootworm, the crop's most damaging pest in the Corn Belt, is ...
High Plains Journal3d
Wheat boosters look for ways to increase acres
Wheat growers and researchers share a goal of adding more acres to help farmers and ranchers, Amy Bickel writes.
LMC-funded project on crop loss analysis in Myanmar's dry zone completed
A project analyzing the causes of crop losses in Myanmar's dry zone, funded by the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) ...
Daily Freeman on MSN8h
Hudson Valley Farm Hub’s roots firmly set, 12 years into its mission
Over a dozen years ago, Peter Buffett and his Novo Foundation bought farmland — once known as Gill Farm — sprawled out in the ...
Great Lakes Now11d
How farmer-led research could revolutionize the relationship between agriculture and researchers
A new program developed by The Ohio State University is working to put farmers first in agricultural research and practices.
Open Access Government6d
Are we on the verge of a fourth agricultural revolution?
Professor Guillaume Blanchet examines whether we are on the verge of a 4th agricultural revolution and explores technologies ...