News Releases Archive

November 2017

• Cranberry growers tart on phosphorus
• High yield, protein with soybean gene
• Soils and your Thanksgiving meal
• Filling intercropping info gap
• Easing the soil’s temperature
• How do septic systems work?
• The fingerprints of coastal carbon sinks

October 2017

• Living mulch builds profits, soil
• Are there really glow-in-the-dark soil organisms?
• Grazing horses on better pastures
• Mineral content of soils key to physical and chemical behavior
• Impact of extreme winter weather on hardwood forests
• Soil amendments for healthier spinach
• Sustainable soils for sustainable cities
• Why is my basement wall cracked?

September 2017

• Nematodes as indicators of soil health
• Constructed wetlands influence the Everglades
• Removing nitrate for healthier ecosystems
• Treating citrus greening with copper: Effects on trees, soils
• Legume crops good for soil fertility, smallholder farmers
• Overcoming obstacles to measure nitrous oxide emissions
• Restoring wetlands and our environment
• Breaking legume’s crop wild relative barrier
• Researching the impact of natural gas drilling
• Effects of changing tillage practices on sugar beets presented
• How can I prevent erosion and runoff in my yard?
• Advancing a shared goal for farmers and conservation
• Plant breeding in the 21st century
• Helping Chinese farmers tackle erosion, increase profits
• Carbon cycling in forest soils research presented
• Helping plants adapt to climate change
• Alaska’s climate, soils, highlighted at meeting
• Beyond herbicides in the agricultural landscape
• Towards a climate-smart Mississippi basin
• Sustainability, nutrient management, soil health focus of symposium
• What are Alaska’s soils telling us?

August 2017

• On the frontlines of climate change
• Spectroscopy: Simple solution for soil sample
• Partnering with soil microbes essential to plant and animal life
• Woteki to speak on global food security: building the needed research
• Closing the agricultural nutrient gap worldwide
• Progress with tropical maize yields highlighted for lectureship
• Peas that like it hot
• Soil microbes persist through National Mall facelift
• When does rock become soil?
• Biochar shows benefits as manure lagoon cover
• Alkaline soil, sensible sensor
• Do plants and soil really ‘talk’?

July 2017

• Adjusting fertilizers vital in claypan soils
• Kidney beans with better roots, better yield
• Why should I stay on the trail while using motorized vehicles in parks?
• Online climate data benefits producers
• How can I fix my falling retaining wall?
• Winter cover crop good for soil, cows, profit

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

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