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A Lesson in Quorum Sensing, and What Matters in Your Soils

February 14, 2019 | Posted in Soil Health

A speaker at No-till on the Plains shares some fascinating information about quorum sensing and its potential to harness the power of microbes to improve water retention in soils and produce food of higher nutritional quality.

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Let the Case for Cover Crops Rest in Your Fields

By John Dobberstein posted on January 10, 2019 | Posted in Cover Crops, Soil Health

The chorus of research emerging about cover crops can reveal some surprising contradictions, but here’s why you shouldn’t change what you love about this soil-building tool.

115 Years of Data Reveal Longer Growing Season, Changing Temperature Trends

July 11, 2018 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Water Management

Source: University of Nebraska

The past century of climate change has extended the average U.S. growing season by nearly 2 weeks but driven annual buildups of yield-stifling heat in the West and Northeast, says new research from the University of Nebraska.

Zimbabwe Farmers Hang Up Their Plows

June 15, 2017

Small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe are producing crops even through drought since taking up no-till farming, and hope to promote the practice despite lack of sufficient trainers to help with the adjustment.

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Be Thankful for the Tools You Have

By John Dobberstein posted on November 23, 2016 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Water Management

Hopefully you’re reading this edition of Dryland No-Tiller early this morning before getting onto some food, festivities and football with your family and friends.

No-Till Can Help Stop Climate Change, Food Insecurity

June 28, 2016

Source: Cross Slot

Soil scientist John Baker explains how no-till not only prevents more carbon from being released into the atmosphere, it returns it to the soil for future crop production

Healthy Soil Serves as Insurance During Extreme Weather

June 20, 2015 | Posted in Soil Health, Water Management

A new report from the National Wildlife Federation details how investing in healthy soil can protect farmers from drought and flood impacts.

Researchers Show Climate Change is Suppressing Soybean Yields

February 10, 2015 | Posted in Water Management

Climate change cost American soybean farmers an estimated $11 billion in unrealized potential yield in the past two decades, a newly published study says.

USDA Observes Kick Off of the International Year of Soils

January 7, 2015 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: USDA

With an increasing global population, a shrinking agricultural land base, climate change and extreme weather events, the nations of the world are focusing their collective attention to the primary resource essential to food production — the soil.

Are Your Soils Paying You Back?

By John Dobberstein posted on October 9, 2014 | Posted in Cover Crops, Soil Health

It’s very easy to get wrapped up in the daily grind of running a farm operation. But as winter rapidly approaches and harvest or seeding winds down, you should check out a book that may become required reading for many farmers.

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Articles Tagged with ''Climate change''

A Lesson in Quorum Sensing, and What Matters in Your Soils

Let the Case for Cover Crops Rest in Your Fields

115 Years of Data Reveal Longer Growing Season, Changing Temperature Trends

Zimbabwe Farmers Hang Up Their Plows

Be Thankful for the Tools You Have

No-Till Can Help Stop Climate Change, Food Insecurity

Healthy Soil Serves as Insurance During Extreme Weather

Researchers Show Climate Change is Suppressing Soybean Yields

USDA Observes Kick Off of the International Year of Soils

Are Your Soils Paying You Back?

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