ARTICLES BY CEU

CEU categories: Crop Management, Nutrient Management, Soil & Water Management, Integrated Pest Management, Sustainability, and Precision Ag

Soil & Water Management

Biosolids applied to agricultural land must meet certain regulations and requirements. Photo by SuSanA Secretariat iva Wikimedia Commons and reprinted here under this license.

Blending biosolids with mulch to reduce PFAS contamination

January 22, 2025

Biosolids

Biosolids in the dryland Pacific Northwest seven years after application

December 13, 2024

A tractor pulling a sensor that measures apparent electrical conductivity (ECa). Photo courtesy of Rintaro Kinoshita and originally published here: https://bit.ly/3BwSIPO

Using Soil Sensors to Assess Soil Salinity

December 12, 2024

Nutrient Management

Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock/Budimir Jevtic

Crop selection and breeding and phosphorus cycling

January 22, 2025

USDA photo by Preston Keres.

Sulfur, the secretive limiting factor for alfalfa

December 30, 2024

Continuous measurement flux-gradient technique

4R fertilizer management strategies help tame N₂O emissions in Manitoba

December 23, 2024

Crop Management

Stephen Komar (left) and Bill Bamka, Rutgers Cooperative Extension agronomists.

Assessing the feasibility of hemp for fiber production in the northeastern United States

January 20, 2025

There are numerous benefits to more diverse rotations, but breaking out of the two-crop corn–soybean rotation is not easy. Photo by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln CropWatch and courtesy of Javed Iqbal.

Diversifying beyond the corn-soybean rotation is possible, but comes with obstacles

December 31, 2024

Seeder planting cover crops into standing corn. Photo by Jeff Sanders.

Improving cover crop interseeding in northern climates

December 11, 2024

Sustainability

Sam Dixon, dairy farm manager at Shelburne Farms in Shelburne, VT, applies biochar to an earthen manure pit. Photo courtesy of Shelburne Farms.

Does applying biochar suppress emissions from manure applications?

December 30, 2024

Webinar: The High Cost of Inefficient Nitrogen

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