Crop Management

Photo of the Farming Smarter staff in 2023 in Lethbridge, AB, Canada.

Applied Crop Production Research Across the Canadian Prairies

September 3, 2024

Wheat harvest in Kansas, the leading wheat producer in the United States. Photo by K-State Research and Extension (https://www.flickr.com/photos/ksrecomm/) and reprinted here under this license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.

Winter Wheat Historic Trends and Yield Gaps in the Wheat State

September 1, 2024

A stocker steer grazing alfalfa-bermudagrass mixtures in Tifton, GA. Photo by Shauni Nichols.

Utilizing Alfalfa as an Alternative Nitrogen Source in Improving Bermudagrass Grazing Systems in the Southeastern United States

August 28, 2024

A farmer in a tractor/planter equipped with a planter monitor, a precision agriculture tool, to guide seed planting. Photo by Lance Cheung, USDA.

Building Trust in AI Farming Tools

July 24, 2024

Barley heading out in later-summer in southern Idaho. Photo by Juliet Marshall.

Improving Estimates for Barley Residue Biomass, Nutrients, and Economic Value

July 5, 2024

Identified in the Pacific Northwest in 2012, late-maturity alpha-amylase (LMA) occurs during grain filling in immature seeds and has no visual phenotype, making contamination with sound grain very easy.

A Simple Test for Determining the Late-Maturity Alpha-Amylase Susceptibility Window in Wheat

May 1, 2024

Crops & Soils

Drone Imagery Provides Valuable Insight on In-Season Cover Crop Growth

May 1, 2024

Checking seeding depth. Photo by Alexander Lindsey.

Seeding: Back to the Basics

May 1, 2024

Photo by Deepak Ghimire.

UAS for Precision Agriculture: State of the Art, Challenges, and Future Perspectives

March 1, 2024

Heat Stress in Canola

Heat Stress in Canola: Paving a Path Forward for Varieties With Improved Tolerance

January 1, 2024

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