With perennial plants, including many invasive plant species, things change in the fall, because instead of just producing seed, plants begin storing resources underground.

Sampling under very dry conditions may increase soil sampling error because it is more difficult to control sampling depth and proper soil core collection.

Through the past 50 years of farming, Webster City, Iowa, farmer Arlo Van Diest has tried many different pieces of equipment and many different practices. His goal is to leave the land better for future generations.

Fabian Fernandez, University of Illinois Extension specialist in plant nutrition and soil fertility, offers a few thoughts on applying nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium with strip-till this season.

The continued incidence of northern corn leaf blight in Ohio fields is increasingly concerning to plant pathologists at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center.

Many farmers in western North Dakota turned to no till farming during dry years. No till farming is a way to plant crops without tilling the soil. That keeps the ground from drying out, saving much-needed moisture for the plants, and farmers are determined to stick with the practice, even during wet years.

Producers using a no-till wheat/row crop/fallow rotation may find that row crop yields in such a rotation are higher in years with relatively normal weather when the wheat stubble height is taller

Fall herbicide applications are still a good idea this year, despite a later-than-normal harvest, according to Ohio State University Extension weed specialist Mark Loux.

With harvest in full swing, many farmers are probably reflecting on the season, and some are considering what they'll do differently next year. This is a good time to take a few notes on what you're seeing and start planning for next year's crops.

Waterhemp has been present in Indiana field surveys for at least the last 10 years but recent control issues with glyphosate is moving this weed up on the radar of concern for Indiana growers.