Environmental advocates in states along the Mississippi River have won a round toward a long-term goal of having federal standards created to regulate farmland runoff and other pollution blamed for the oxygen-depleted “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, and problems in other bodies of water.

It’s often said that no-tillers choosing cover crops for their farm operations should have goals in mind. One could be scavenging nitrogen in the soil and holding it for the next cash crop, rather than letting this expensive nutrient run off fields into local watersheds.

What is the potential for increasing soybean yield by adding some late-season N at the pod filling stage?

A new technology developed by The University of Nottingham that enables all of the worlds crops to take nitrogen from the air.

Seeding various legume cover crops after wheat can supply nitrogen (N) to your following crop, Penn State University says.