In looking at all of the major developments in American agriculture over the past 75 years, no-till has to be ranked close to the top.

If you haven’t already ordered your seed for 2013, you’re probably getting ready to do that.

There is still time this fall to apply herbicides for control of winter annuals and marestail.

Despite the increase in glyphosate resistance cases, glyphosate has a relatively low incidence of resistance evolution compared to other herbicides.

Wastewater treatment and industrial plants would be asked to make costly upgrades to cut pollution while farmers would do so voluntarily under a long-awaited strategy released Monday to reduce harmful nutrients in Iowa waterways and the Gulf of Mexico.

Just south of Milroy is an acreage that has belonged to the Hicks family since 1885, but these days the field is wired with electronic instruments that transmit data in real time to the University of Minnesota Southwest Research and Outreach Center in Lamberton.

Phosphorous and potassium exist naturally in the soil as a part of rock, clay and other minerals that make up soils.

The USDA’s November forecasts of the size of the 2012 U.S. corn and soybean crops were larger than expected, particularly for soybeans. As a result, the general downtrend in soybean prices since mid-September has accelerated, with January futures now at the lowest level since June 29.

The search for a sustainable slow-release fertilizer has led scientists to an ingredient used in some diarrhea medicines.