By Jim Isleib, Michigan State University ExtensioninShare New farmers can benefit from careful assessment of their farm’s soils and planning for crop rotations and use of cover crops. Beginning farmers often start out with soils ...
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Schools, 4-H clubs, community organizations, church groups and other youth organizations are encouraged to apply. Grants of up to $1,000 for youth gardening projects are available through North Dakota State University. Any project ...
Good soil health and management are basic to successful crop production. Growers control several practices capable of improving or diminishing important soil traits. Knowing those characteristics helps producers maintain and improve soil ...
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Purdue Extension agronomists have published research updates regarding corn plant populations and nitrogen management guidelines for Indiana growers. Plant populations and nitrogen rates are hot topics in agriculture as input costs ...
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In 2013 South Dakotans planted 617,000 acres of sunflowers. No other state came close to this number of acres. North Dakota was second, planting just under 500,000 acres of sunflowers in 2013. Sunflowers have been a successful and ...
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Corn grown as the first or second crop after alfalfa usually requires much less fertilizer or manure nitrogen (N) than corn grown after corn, soybeans or small grains. When alfalfa is killed, some of the accumulated N in the soil and in ...
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A Hydraulic ram cylinder is a mechanical device for trading power by the usage of high drive oil acting against the surface area of a chamber inside the chamber. A weight driven barrel gives immediate constrain in one center point in either ...
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THURSDAY Jan. 23, 2014, 2014 -- The case of a Texas woman who died after becoming infected in New Mexico with the mosquito-borne dengue virus highlights a need for U.S. doctors to recognize the disease early, experts say. Dengue fever is ...
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Goodyear Farm Tires has launched a new category called Extreme Flotation. These new tires offer a number of advantages, including tighter turn radius, a smoother ride, reduced soil compaction and better flotation. Two tires are being ...
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Soil conditions that are typically seen as negative during the crop season could help keep things in better shape this winter, especially when high winds make soils susceptible to erosion, which is most common during this time of year, 2 ...
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Soils of southern South America, including Patagonia, have endured a high frequency of disturbances from volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, landslides, and erosion. In addition, massive fires in the mid-20th century were set to forests in the ...
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Mullican Flooring has added its RidgeCrest Collection, an existing engineered product line, to its growing roster of Made-in-America products. The company had previously offshored this segment of production to Asia. The RidgeCrest ...
Temperatures across the northern tier of the country are bitterly cold once again as another Arctic front has plunged south from Canada. This front is currently progressing south and east through the southern Ohio Valley, with temperatures ...
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Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new genetic platform that allows efficient production of naturally occurring molecules, and have used it to produce a novel antibiotic compound. Their study, published ...
Soil potassium (K) levels have been routinely tested for many years. Historically, K levels were quite high in most South Dakota fields and therefore crop producers paid little attention to K levels or fertilization. However, in the late ...
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