The Purdue University-led Useful to Usable climate initiative is offering a new online tool to help farmers and farm advisers better manage the application of nitrogen fertilizer for maximum crop yields and minimum environmental damage.

The end of harvest marks a good time to implement good management practices for yield monitors including taking steps to winterize components. Yield monitors continue to increase and in most cases are standard options on today's combines with the yield-mapping data being important information for precision agriculture services offered across the agriculture industry.

Choosing the right corn hybrid to plant for silage can be tricky. We know what to look for when choosing corn hybrids for grain &mash; yield, standability, maturity and pest resistance — but what should we look for in silage?

The North Dakota State University Extension Service and University of Minnesota Extension will co-host a conservation tillage conference Dec. 16-17, at the Hilton Garden Inn, Fargo.

Indiana and Michigan NRCS announced Dec. 19 as their signup deadline for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), while Ohio NRCS announced its deadline of Jan. 16, 2015.

Farmers have increasingly shifted away from conventional tillage to some form of reduced tillage. In part, this reflects efforts to control labor, fuel, and maintenance costs as well as the recognition that tillage can contribute to a decrease in overall soil health.

This Agronomy Fact Sheet offers a summary of about a dozen important points about soil acidity and ag lime that would certainly be worth a review as we complete the 2014 harvest.

StripTillFarmer friend Joey Hanson, with Diversified Agronomy in Elk Point, S.D., shared this in-field video with us taking a look at some fresh custom fall strips along with a detailed walk-around of the row unit setup on his strip-till unit and how he monitors variable-rate fertilizer application in the tractor cab.

It's always amazing to see apparently still-thriving winter annual weeds underneath the snow or following some really cold weather. Our best advice at this point on fall spraying is that once fields dry or freeze up enough to allow traffic again, there is still considerable benefit to applying herbicides for control of marestail and other weeds that persist through winter.

The government has the power to hold drone operators accountable when they operate the remote-control aircraft recklessly, a federal safety board ruled Tuesday in a setback to small drone operators chafing under Federal Aviation Administration restrictions.