Kansas State University Extension shares some considerations and cautions for growers thinking about planting winter wheat early, including potential issues with wheat streak mosaic, barley yellow dwarf disease and excessive fall tillering.

Most manure nutrients can be managed successfully with traditional soil analysis, but nitrogen in manure requires some simple advance planning to insure it's given proper credit for offsetting commercial fertilizer inputs, says University of Nebraska Extension.

Laboratory analysis confirmed that a plant found in a row-crop field in McIntosh County in south-central North Dakota is Palmer amaranth, says North Dakota State University Extension.

Many naysayers don’t believe you can no-till sugarbeets, but Greg Schlemmer has proved his doubters wrong as he’s been no-tilling irrigated sugarbeets in southern Montana for the last 5 years. Find out how he’s doing it.

Soil sampling in fall is strongly recommended to improve winter wheat management, says Kansas State University Extension, because nitrate-N levels can have a significant impact on N recommendations for winter wheat.

Clubroot is found everywhere brassica crops are grown and clubroot is getting worse, said experts meeting at the recent International Clubroot Workshop that brought together 200 clubroot researchers, extension staff and growers.

South Dakota State University Extension shares some tips for dealing with downy mildew in the sunflower crop this year.