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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

Boll weevils with Paul Csomo

November 8, 2021

Bagged forage sample (left) and mature forage sorghum (right). Photos courtesy of Fred Vocasek.

Researchers question science, testing methods for prussic acid (HCN) in forages

November 8, 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

Photo by Danielle MacCallum.

Hard red winter wheat in the Mid-Atlantic

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

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