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Contest day for the Region 7 Collegiate Soil Judging Competition that took place Oct. 23–25, 2025 at Talbott Farms in Palisade, CO. Participants examine soil profiles on a colluvial hill slope (left) and an alluvial stream terrace (right). Photo by Susan Melzer.

Colorado State University hosts 2025 Northwest Regional Collegiate Soil Judging Competition

November 17, 2025

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Complementary phenotyping approaches for studying genetic basis of maize root system architecture

November 17, 2025

Clockwise from top: Aerial image of the Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Aspirational Cropping System Experiment (photo courtesy of Ruben Ulbrich, KBS LTAR); Red clover cover crops in maturing wheat (photo courtesy of G. Philip Robertson, KBS LTAR); and canola being harvested from a five-crop regenerative cropping system experiment (photo courtesy of Gavin Hutchings, KBS LTAR).

Regenerative transition costs are tractable

November 17, 2025

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Government shutdown ends, USDA funding finalized

November 17, 2025

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) image of wheat chromosomes revealing the location of wheatgrass chromosome segments (red, labeled with arrows) that impart resistance to wheat streak mosaic virus, Triticum mosaic virus, and stem rust race Ug99. Photo courtesy of Dr. Dal-Hoe Koo, Kansas State University.

FISHing for plant chromosomes

November 13, 2025

These students are all smiles after competing in the Region 6 Collegiate Soil Judging Contest in October.

A Soil-ebration of land and people

November 13, 2025

Lee Briese is a crop consultant with CENTROL in North Dakota and a Certified Crop Adviser (CCA).

A day in the life: Lee Briese

November 12, 2025

Comparison between raw yield data collected by a combine (left) and cleaned yield estimates for an on-farm trial (right). The white-shaded area in the cleaned map represents the experimental border. Image courtesy of Caio dos Santos and Data-Intensive Farm Management.

How we process yield monitor data in on-farm experiments matters

November 10, 2025

Oklahoma State University, coached by Dr. Daniel Adamson (far left), finished first at the 2025 Region 4 Collegiate Soil Judging Contest on October 9 in Benton County, Arkansas.

Results of the 2025 Region 4 Collegiate Soil Judging Contest

November 10, 2025

Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/USDA NRCS Texas.

Collegiate Soil Judging

November 7, 2025

Soil judging contests encourage team effort as well as individual knowledge in identifying, evaluating, classifying, and describing soil profiles. This special collection provides articles from regional and national contests.

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