The scientists at Cornell University say the new index will account for the characteristics of a field and help evaluate the risk of phosphorus runoff.

Alyssa Collins, plant pathologist for Penn State University, has found a new soybean disease while visiting Pennsylvania farms.

A machine that can inject dry poultry litter and composted cattle manure below the soil surface in pastures and no-till fields is on order from a research coalition across five Chesapeake Bay states: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York. There are currently no machines on the market that can do this.

If you happen to think that strip-tilling is mainly a fall practice, guess again.