Farmers interested in cover crops have a daylong educational session on cover-crop management available to them at the Conservation Tillage and Technology Conference, to be held Feb. 24-25 at the McIntosh Center of Ohio Northern University in Ada.

Land rolling use has steadily increased, especially on soybean fields in the Upper Midwest during the past few years.

The increased demand for sulfur has stimulated numerous new products, new marketing campaigns and new 'expertise' on how to address crop sulfur fertilization programs.

oger Ashley, North Dakota State University Extension agronomist at the Dickinson Research Extension Center, said NDSU is currently working on new nitrogen recommendations for corn.

Strip-tilling and deep-banding nitrogen and phosphate increased corn grain yield vs. conventional-tillage and conventional fertilizer placement methods in highly eroded low fertile soils in 2007 research at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service Northwest Irrigation & Soils Research Laboratory at Kimberly, Idaho.

BBI Spreaders announces that it is working in conjunction with Dr. Dan Pote at the ARS Dale Bumpers Small Farms Research Center in Booneville, AK to develop new patented technology for a machine that injects dry poultry litter and composted cattle manure below the soil surface of pastures and no-till fields.

A recent study shows that the most heavily tile-drained areas of North America are also the largest contributing source of nitrate to the Gulf of Mexico, leading to seasonal hypoxia.