Good prices for all crops make farmers reluctant to change historic rotations.

Study finds giant wind turbine blades that generate renewable energy might also help corn and soybean crops stay cooler and drier, help them fend off fungal infestations and improve their ability to extract growth-enhancing carbon dioxide from the air and soil. 

The increased demand for sulfur has stimulated numerous new products, new marketing campaigns and new 'expertise' on how to address crop sulfur fertilization programs.

A new soybean insect pest, the bean plataspid, has spread north from Georgia into South Carolina.

oger Ashley, North Dakota State University Extension agronomist at the Dickinson Research Extension Center, said NDSU is currently working on new nitrogen recommendations for corn.

Using no-till and corn-soybean rotation practices in farm fields can significantly reduce field emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, according to a Purdue University study.

Conservation tillage practices are also needed to stop soil erosion, store carbon and keep the soil healthy to produce high quality crops and good yields, says Jerry Hatfield of the USDA.

Strip-tilled corn and soybeans yielded approximately $5 and $26 per acre more, respectively, than conventionally tilled corn and soybeans in onfarm research in Iowa in 2010.

Strip-tilling and deep-banding nitrogen and phosphate increased corn grain yield vs. conventional-tillage and conventional fertilizer placement methods in highly eroded low fertile soils in 2007 research at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service Northwest Irrigation & Soils Research Laboratory at Kimberly, Idaho.