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- Nat Williams For Lee Agri-Media
Fertilizer strategy has long been centered on the “Four Rs” – right source, right rate, right timing and right placement. That hasn’t changed, but experts are adjusting some numbers.
- Lauren Quinn University of Illinois
Red crown rot, a fungal disease of soybean, is not new to the Midwest. First reported in Illinois in 2018, the disease is now surging across the state and the region. Boris Camiletti, a plant pathologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is leading the effort to understand and …
- Amy Sullivan GROW
Sometimes aiming for two birds with one stone just means you miss twice.
- Teagan King The Wisconsin State Journal
A Wisconsin infant has died from measles. It's the first death linked to the disease in the state since 1990, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services stated Nov. 5.
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Settled under the Homestead Act of 1885, the Ochsner family farm in Sutton, Nebraska, has weathered the Great Depression, the 1980s farm crisis, and the evolving landscape of American agriculture. Today, fifth-generation farmer Levi Ochsner, his wife Jena, and three generations working side-…
- Julie Belschner
Wisconsin’s winters are warming as are the entire country’s winters. Much of Wisconsin has seen the most extreme changes in average winter temperatures, of 4-6 degrees Fahrenheit or more. About 15 to 25 days have been warmer-than-average winter days.
It's that time of the year again. Agri-View offers a list of available agricultural scholarships.
- Staff at USDA ARS
U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service researchers and their collaborators recently decoded a gene in wheat, labeled H13, that protects some varieties of the grain crop from Hessian fly larvae, whose appetite claims approximately $100 million’s worth of the annual U.S…
- Ashley Andre Wisconsin Agriculture Youth Council
Randy Romanski, Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, kicked off Sept. 17 the seventh Wisconsin Agriculture Youth Council term. The virtual session included presentations and discussion.
- Doyle Rice and Dinah Voyles Pulver USA Network via Reuters
The polar vortex is doing something extraordinary. Something unusual is happening in the skies above the Arctic, but will it have any impact on our weather here in the United States?
- Jason Maloney For Agri-View
Some things sound too good to be true. Imagine a grain that can be harvested 60 to 90 days after planting. The same grain is a valuable feed for livestock and also is the main ingredient in ethnic dishes prepared around the world. It can serve as a cover crop or a late planting to replace a …
- Iowa State University
Buckwheat – Fagopyrum esculentum Moench – is a broadleaf plant native to northern Asia. Seeds are brown in color, about the size of a soybean but irregularly shaped, with four triangular surfaces. The seeds germinate and emerge rapidly when planted in warm soil, typically in three to four da…
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- Paul Jasa University of Nebraska-Lincoln
With fall harvest underway, recent rains have left fields soft, with harvest equipment cutting ruts into the soil in some areas. Those ruts leave the soil surface uneven and can indicate significant compaction below the surface. That compaction can restrict root growth for several growing se…
- Beatriz Bizzuti University of Minnesota-Extension
As summer comes to an end and temperatures cool, it is time to start preparing the stand for winter.
- Jana Rose Schleis Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk
Dan Kuebler is out on a hot August morning on what was once his farm. He grew fruits and vegetables on 30 acres near Ashland, Missouri, and for decades sold his produce at the Columbia Farmers Market in Columbia, Missouri.
It's that time of the year again. Agri-View offers a list of available agricultural scholarships.
- Chris McCullough For Agri-View
Farmers can be notoriously private individuals and almost lock-up when it comes to serious talks with family members about things like wills, succession, funerals and health. They often fear that complicated family dynamics could cause real issues when it comes to “who gets what” following t…
- Jason Maloney For Agri-View
By the full moon that began the last week in October much had happened in far-northern Wisconsin. Jack Frost had visited most fields to end the growing season. Dry conditions, strong winds and low humidity had led to red-flag fire conditions some days. The drought widened and deepened to inc…
- Amy Sullivan GROW
When organic corn and soybean farmer Jacob Leopold saw Old School Manufacturing’s new interrow row crop weed zapper on Facebook, he knew he wanted to try it out on his family’s organic farm in northwest Ohio. One phone call later, Leopold Family Farms, where Jacob farms with his father Jim a…
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