The North Central Region-Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (NCR-SARE) program currently has four open grant programs to fund research and education projects that advance sustainable agricultural practices in the region.
In addition to an extended germination window, marestail can produce up to 200,000 seeds/plant, with approximately 80% of those seeds being able to germinate immediately after maturation.
Incorporating cereal rye after corn in a corn-soybean rotation can be a valuable management tool to scavenge residual nitrogen (N), reduce soil erosion and evaporation, and suppress weeds.
The actions required to do a good job of no-till seed placement are the same whether you're planting corn or canola, farming clay or sand, working with high organic matter or low organic matter, or farming in Canada, South Dakota, or Colorado.
With no anthropogenic causes and only natural in-filling, Lake Pepin should remain a lake for about 3,000 years. At the rate sediment is being contributed to the lake, it’s estimated that in about 340 years Lake Pepin will be a wet prairie with a stream running through it.
A new national effort called Probing Our Country's Soil Health is focused on creating a free and user-friendly tool for farmers to benchmark the soil health of their fields.
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As higher-yielding hybrids, no-till practices and continuous corn continue to increase residue levels, farmers are facing growing challenges that can narrow planting windows, reduce operational efficiency and hinder profit potential.
Over the years, the Feikemas implemented basins and tiling to protect waterways and keep their fields from washing out, as well as implementing strip-till and no-till practices.
Over 400 farmers, agronomists, researchers, educators, dealers and manufacturers packed the President Abraham Lincoln Hotel in downtown Springfield, Ill., for the 13th annual National Strip-Tillage Conference.
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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Bio Till Cover Crops, Bob and Robby Jewell explain how they incorporate wood chips, cover crops and rotational grazing into their Leopold Conservation Award-Winning no-till system in northeast Iowa.
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