Northern Great Plains

Soil sampling for organic carbon concentration measurement is done the same as for soil fertility testing, so it should be very familiar: you will want to collect a composite soil sample to a fixed depth.

Sampling design for quantifying soil organic carbon stock in production ag fields

December 3, 2021

Photo courtesy of A. Larson.

Soil test levels to guide nutrient stewardship: Phosphorus and potassium focus for the North-Central region

November 12, 2021

CPSS

Newly certified

November 5, 2021

Stocker steers grazing cereal rye and turnip forage mixture on vacant cropland following corn harvest in the winter. Photo by Jordan L. Cox-O’Neill.

Soil properties and crop–livestock integration

November 5, 2021

Strategic tillage in on a Brazil farm. Photo courtesy of Bruno Montoani Silva and Devison Souza Peixoto.

Strategic tillage has Its place in no-till agriculture

November 5, 2021

Iowa farmers look over a cover crop mixture. NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts.

Cover crop mixtures, biodiversity, and agriculture

November 5, 2021

The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) will pay growers for up to five years to experiment with cover crops to determine the best seed, management, and termination options for their farm. Here cover crops are being interseeded into corn. Photo by Lynn Betts (NRCS/SWCS).

Beyond practice adoption: keeping producers engaged in sustainability initiatives

November 3, 2021

Figure 1, Wheat of Australian farmer and harvest weed seed control pioneer, Ray Harrington, is ready for harvest but infested with rigid ryegrass. Note the weed seeds are retained above the combine’s cutter bar at harvest, so the combine will take the seeds in and subject them to the Harrington Seed Destructor. Photo courtesy of Michael Flessner.

From spreader to predator: Killing weed seeds with the combine

September 18, 2021

That’s not snow—it’s salt. Some areas on the righthand side of this photo are starting to look a bit better after four years. Photo submitted by Sharon Clay with the Journal of Environmental Quality article found here: https://doi.org/10.1002/jeq2.20223. The photo is not associated with any of the examples used in this article.

Successful experiences managing salts and sodium

September 12, 2021

Fred Vocasek, Steve Walthour, Shannon Kenyon, and Mark Rude describe how producers can boost water quality through sound agronomy (from Managing Scarce Water Resources–Part 1).

Highlights from the 2021 Sustainable Agronomy Conference

September 12, 2021

Webinar: The High Cost of Inefficient Nitrogen

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