The latest USDA Crop Progress report showed 75% of corn mature as of the week ended Sept. 27, 2020. This surpassed both the 39% reported mature in the same week last year and the 5 year average of 65%.

American Farmland Trust shares publicly its CaRPE Tool, a web-based interactive tool that allows users to quickly visualize and quantify net greenhouse gas, or GHG, emission reductions resulting from the implementation of cropland and grazing land management practices.

According to the latest USDA Crop Progress report, 59% of corn was reported mature as of the week ended Sept. 20, 2020. This is more than double the 26% reported mature in the same week last year and the 5 year average of 49%.

After years of research and public comments from the agriculture community, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler declared triazines safe for continued use in controlling resilient weeds, according to the Corn Growers Association.

In this episode of the Strip-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Agrisolutions, executive editor Julia Gerlach interviews Minnesota strip-tiller Jon Stevens during a visit to his Maple Creek Farms operation, where he talks about his transition into strip-till and re-introduction of cattle back onto the farm.

A new publication has been released from the NRCS Plant Materials Program that may be of interest to growers using cover crops in the north central U.S.

According to the most recent USDA crop progress report, one quarter of corn was reported mature in the week ended Sept. 6, 2020. This exceeds the 10% reported mature in the same week last year and the 5 year average of 19%.

Erosion control and banded nutrient placement are a couple of the reasons New Prague, Minn., strip-tiller Greg Entinger adopted strip-till in 2015. He shares some of the economic objectives and measurable returns he's seen with reduced fuel usage, selling full-width tillage equipment and fertilizer cost savings.

Northfield, Minn., strip-tiller and no-tiller Mike Peterson shares how he retrofitted his John Deere 8200 tractor with liquid fertilizer tanks for split nitrogen application. In 2020, he moved the N tanks from the sidedress bar to the tractor and freed up the toolbar for cover crop application, while still applying nutrients.

Seeking to combine the return of cattle with capturing the value of cover crops, Rock Creek, Minn., strip-tiller and no-tiller Jon Stevens is grazing cattle on a 30-acre paddock seeded with grasses and cereals with the intention of trying to rotate in corn within 3 years to capture in-field nitrogen.