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We started using DNA fingerprints to select for new crop varieties more than 30 years ago. What have we learned, and what’s coming next?
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Results from the 2025 Southeast Regional Collegiate Soils Contest
North Carolina State University hosted the 2025 Southeast Regional (Region 2) Collegiate Soils Contest from October 6–9 in the Raleigh area. A total of 113 students and coaches representing 12 universities competed in the contest. Check out the photos and results.
Results from the 2025 Northeast Regional Soil Judging Contest
The 2025 Northeast Regional (Region 1) Soil Judging Contest was hosted by the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown on October 8–10. With 13 schools participating and 101 student contestants, this was the largest Region 1 Soil Judging Contest in recent memory. See the results and watch a video from contest day!
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Our Down to Earth section publishes food, farming, and environmental concepts and research in language that is easy to understand by all, including those without formal scientific training. Visit us each week as we continue to add more sections and content.
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Halloween special: Spring dead spot
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Spring dead spot is a disease that lies in wait before going after your turfgrasses, transforming your favorite golf course into the set of your favorite PG-13 slasher. In this episode of the Field, Lab, Earth podcast, Dr. Wendell Hutchens discusses the mega gains made in the last 15 years of spring dead spot research in hopes that someday we can turn this slow-moving monster into just the stuff of legend.
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