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Drone Seeding Cover Crops into Standing Soybeans

Pennsylvania Soybean Board funded trial exploring how broadcast seeding into standing soybeans performs compared to post-harvest drill seeding.

By Heidi Reed posted on August 12, 2024 | Posted in Cover Crops

Source: PennState Extension

One way to get cover crops established sooner is broadcast-seeding covers into standing soybeans prior to harvest.

New Research Finds No-Till Consistently Produces Higher Yields

Michigan State University study proves stability & consistency of no-till systems

By Nicole Heslip and Hayden Lessiter posted on August 7, 2024

Source: Brownfield Ag News

30 years of research from Michigan State University shows that no-till consistency produces higher, stable yields compared to tillage.

How Residual Herbicides Impact Early Season Interseeded Cover Crops in Corn

By Chris Proctor, Victor de Sousa Ferreira, Alexandre Tonon Rosa, and Mark Reiman posted on July 29, 2024 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Cover Crops

Source: University of Nebraska Lincoln

Early season drill interseeding might be a viable strategy since it extends the window for cover crop establishment and growth.

SARE Grant Aids Farmer in Using Drones to Test N Applications

October 24, 2017 | Posted in Equipment

Source: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Crop Watch

A drone outfitted with infrared sensors was flown weekly over the field trials gathering information to calculate optimal in-season nitrogen.

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The Financial Cost of Erosion

By Laura Barrera posted on April 13, 2015 | Posted in Soil Health, Water Management

Newell Kitchen, a soil scientist with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service in Columbia, Mo., talks about how he and colleagues saw a relationship between yield productivity and erosion on a field they were studying.

Study Shows No Damage to Soils from Cover Crop Grazing

February 12, 2015 | Posted in Cover Crops, Soil Health

A 7-year USDA study found that relatively low-level grazing does not compact the soil or significantly affect the amount of soil organic matter.

Multiple Bt Toxins Not a Panacea for Preventing Pest Resistance

January 21, 2015 | Posted in Crop Protection

Source: University of Arizona

Overly optimistic assumptions about transgenic crops that produce two or more Bt toxins active against the same pest can lead to inadequate strategies for delaying evolution of pest resistance, says University of Arizona.

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29 Reasons Why Many Growers Are Harvesting Higher No-Till Yields in Their Fields Than Some University Scientists Find In Research Plots

By Frank Lessiter posted on January 12, 2015

In the December 2014 issue of No-Till Farmer, we looked at a recent worldwide analysis of over 5,000 side-by-side tillage system observations in 610 peer-reviewed studies.

Tips For No-Tilling ‘Lean And Green’

No-tillers who do their own onfarm research can harvest the data needed to make better decisions about their farm systems and inputs.

By John Dobberstein posted on December 1, 2012 | Posted in Nutrient Management

One way no-tillers can make their farms more profitable is to put their management decisions under a closer microscope and determine if they’re making the right choices about fertilizers, hybrids/varieties, row spacing or equipment

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70 Times Less No-Till Runoff

By Frank Lessiter posted on June 1, 2011 | Posted in Water Management

Winter wheat is the main crop in the Pacific Northwest and growers normally seed around 2.2 million acres every fall. Yet year after year, an average of anywhere from 1.3 to 22.3 tons of silt loam soil erodes from every acre that is in wheat production.

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