News Releases Archive

June 2017

• Calculating ‘old’ and ‘new’ water runoff
• No mercury accumulation in fish after fire
• How do retaining walls work?
• Promising peas’ potential in Big Sky Country
• Waste not, want not
• How do the “three sisters” plants work together?

May 2017

• Mining for answers on abandoned mines
• Where you grow what you grow
• When birds of a feather poop together
• What can I tell by looking at—and touching—my soil?
• Thirsty seeds reach for medicine cabinet
• Doctoring the soil
• Why is my soil so compacted?

April 2017

• Corn with a cover of grass
• A better way to manage phosphorus?
• Is white beach sand really sand?
• Advocating for ant antics
• Agronomy Feeds the World Videos created
• Cover, crimp, cultivate?
• Sleeping soils get a wake up call

March 2017

• Steering towards grazing fields
• Making “mulch” ado of ant hills
• How do forests recover from fire?
• Wildly stronger sunflowers
• Best of the Ag “Boots on the Ground”!
• Cultivating a city
• Snowpack water hack
• Magic cover crop carpet?

February 2017

• Cultivating cool-for-cash-crops
• Snow and soil in cooperation
• Popping potential of sorghum
• Grow, mow, mulch: finding lawn’s value
• Earth, wind…and sand dunes
• Challenges of breeding “VIPeas”

January 2017

• Scientific Societies send “scientific integrity” letter to President Trump
• Floating towards water treatment
• Mighty river, mighty filter
• Thumbs up for Downer
• Changing climate changes soils
• Certified Soil Technician certification announced
• When a mysterious chemical leaks
• Putting sidewalks on low-sodium diet

December 2016

• Magic beans? Gardens win prize money
• A library for food security
• Hard-working soil provides year-round gifts
• Rain out, research in
• Critical zone, critical research
• Building from the ground up

November 2016

• The economy of cold soil blues
• Writing an equation for soil success
• Students, teachers invited to “Grow With It!”
• Matchmaking for coffee?
• Pilgrims and soil: what’s the connection?
• Shedding a light on contaminants
• Beware of radon risk

October 2016

• Nutrition information…for cows?
• Wisconsin dairy industry sets standard for sustainability
• Agronomy, crops and soils lectures live streamed
• Growing industrial hemp in eastern Canada: a new frontier
• Soil moisture for crop health topic of symposium
• Digging into Florida
• USAID food security program in review
• Getting maximum profit, minimal pollution
• Symposium to discuss crops grown in semiarid regions
• Sustainable intensification research topic of agronomy symposium
• Symposium promotes versatile, vital pulse crops
• Tidy farms, healthy streams
• Desert, city overlap explored in Phoenix
• Soil: more than meets the eye

September 2016

• One Health environmental program topic of symposium
• Solution blooming for fracking spills?
• Multi-disciplinary innovation for fiber topic of symposium
• Counting carbon on the farm topic of symposium
• Space agriculture topic of symposium
• Intercropping: Intersection of soil health, production
• Novel crops topic of symposium
• Lecture to discuss ag innovations in arid regions
• Organic panic: finding the right combination
• Symposium addresses the science of the rhizosphere
• Symposium to address measurements important for water-limited agricultural systems
• Soils and landscapes of the Southwestern United States topic of symposium
• Taking advantage of plants’ little fungal helpers
• Seed quality topic of symposium
• There’s more to beans than you think
• The relationship between soil color and climate

August 2016

• Cowpeas are the answer. What’s the question?
• Meeting theme: Resilience emerging from scarcity and abundance
• Winter pulse, spring harvest
• Sayonara, kudzu bug?
• What “cover crops” could home gardeners consider in the fall?
• Hashtags, turf, and classrooms
• Trading farmland for nitrogen protection
• Why do soils need amending?

July 2016

• Water resilience that flows
• More for less in pastures
• The power of scientific meetings
• How are beaches restored?
• Upstream trenches, downstream nitrogen
• Agroforestry helps farmers branch out
• Cowan named ICCA of the Year
• When a beach is more than a beach

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