Crop Management

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

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

Photo courtesy of AdobeStock/Kenneth Keifer.

The Corn Chronicles: Knowing Corn’s Past Helps Next Season’s Hybrid Selection

January 1, 2024

Long-term winter wheat–winter pea cover crop plots, which replaced long-term winter wheat–fallow plots at the Columbia Plateau Conservation Research Center, located 9 mi northeast of Pendleton, OR.

Winter Wheat Response to Winter Pea Cover Crop Under Dryland Cropping

January 1, 2024

Photo by Edwin Remsberg

Economics of Cover Crops

September 21, 2023

AI-generated image courtesy of Adobe Stock/Trendy Image Two.

Citrus, Too, Benefits From Cover Crops

September 13, 2023

Figure 1. Photos of untreated, aggressively growing cotton in the middle of the season (A; Photo by J. Lee) and cotton near the end of the season showing excessive vegetative growth and very limited reproductive growth near the top of the plant (B; Photo by L.C. Hand).

Regulating Plant Growth in Cotton

July 20, 2023

Photo by Robbin Campbell.

Single-Strip Spatial Evaluation Approach for Easier, More Meaningful On-Farm Research

May 24, 2023

Photo courtesy of Greg Semach, AAFC Beaverlodge. Beaverlodge is one of the locations of the study described in this article.

Comparison of Integrated Crop Rotation Systems in Western Canada

May 23, 2023

Walking the Line: Real-World Ethics in Agronomy and Soil Science

Early Career Award Opportunities in Agronomy, Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences