Now that row crop harvest is underway and fall moisture has been received, it is time to start planning your fall herbicide applications to control winter annual broadleaf weeds and grasses ahead of grain sorghum or corn, says Kansas State University Extension.

A Great Plains no-tiller who ‘walks the walk’ with taking soil health seriously shares how no-till is helping him succeed.

Accurate yield monitor data collection is critical and the calibration of the mass flow (impact plate) sensor or optical sensor in the clean grain elevator is a major element of yield monitor operations, says University of Nebraska Extension.

Researchers say the co-evolution of kochia accessions with low to high levels of cross-resistance to dicamba and fluroxypyr have been identified in western Kansas.

Experiments performed over the last two crop seasons have helped in creating a greater window of decision making regarding the application of nitrogen (N) fertilizers.

While President Trump touts the new free-trade deal, agricultural groups signal support for the new pact for easing trade concerns, improving market access.

Current outlooks by the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) call for El Nino conditions to continue through winter, with a peak warmth occurring before the end of the year, before the warm event potentially ends in spring, says University of Nebraska Extension.

A new study suggests pumping restrictions might not need to be as severe as originally thought to save the imperiled part of the Ogallala aquifer. But the news about its sustainable use in the future still isn’t good.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, discovered that certain leaf metabolites can be used as markers for mycorrhizal associations.

I came across an article this week that seems to mirror the challenges we’re having today with implementing conservation practices in the semi-arid Great Plains, and the concern I’ve had that our agricultural leaders are not on the same page about this.