Five major soil insects can be found in corn fields: seed corn maggot, white grubs, wireworms, cutworms and rootworms. Corn rootworm populations have increased in continuous corn production areas of ...

Nitrogen is often the most limiting nutrient in growing plants. When deficient, plant yields and quality are reduced. However ...

This innovative system could potentially boost the much-needed supply of soil nitrogen in Midwest corn production. Indiana ...

Unfertilized soybean fields with lower soil fertility should be planted earlier than high fertility fields, according to a ...

It’s more important than ever to have a very high soil test for phosphorus (P). New University of Minnesota research at Waseca showed that soils with a very high P test (Bray P=22 ppm)-with ...

The UD Soil Testing Program provides a variety of soil testing and educational support to farmers, homeowners and others engaged in soil management and land use. The program is offered as a public ...

supplementing the soil and fertilizer supply. The analysis showed that, across all nitrogen fertilizer rates, the inoculant increased corn vegetative growth, nitrogen accumulation, kernel number ...

Unfertilized soybean fields with lower soil fertility should be planted earlier than high fertility fields, according to a University of Illinois ...

A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study testing a gene-edited bacterial ... large impact when summed across all Corn Belt acres.” The study, “Soil inoculation with nitrogen-fixing ...

They collected tile drainage samples from a corn-soybean field on a weekly basis over three years and measured nitrate. They ...

especially corn. Organic nitrogen converted into plant-feeding inorganic nitrogen at a rate about 70% higher in the longer-rotation soil samples, researchers found. Heightened nitrogen ...