Anecdotal evidence of soil nitrogen consistently being above expected levels in no-till, cereal-on-cereal farming systems raises questions over the established wisdom of how nitrogen replenishment works, according to Western Australian consultant and no-till advocate Bill Crabtree.

Row width is one of the management practices most often considered by growers as potentially important to increased soybean yields and profits.

Jim Kinsella, who helped pioneer no-till and strip-till farming systems in the U.S., is receiving an environmental award from the Illinois Corn Growers Association.

With the recent stretch of nice fall weather, we continue to get questions about control of certain winter annual weeds, namely common chickweed and horseweed/marestail.

Farmland in western Iowa and eastern Nebraska affected by flooding early this year and not planted to any crop has potential economic and soil environmental consequences if the soils are left unattended.

Corn and soybean farmers are pushing for— and Congress is moving to create— a whole new subsidy that could maintain farm incomes at a nearly four-decade high should prices fall or crops be destroyed by weather.

State foresters and federal wildlife officials say that kudzu, a green vine that can grow as fast as a foot a day, is growing in 22 Ohio counties

Researchers may have determined that scientists should include emissions from the crops themselves when measuring greenhouse gas emissions from cropland.

The South Australia No-Till Farming Association (SANTFA) plans to utilize ultra high-pressure water jets to create the ultimate no-till farming system.

Interviews with crop researchers at American universities paint the same picture: high temperatures have already shrunken output of many crops and vegetables.