News Releases Archive

September 2017

• Nematodes as indicators of soil health
• Constructed wetlands influence the Everglades
• Removing nitrate for healthier ecosystems
• Treating citrus greening with copper: Effects on trees, soils
• Legume crops good for soil fertility, smallholder farmers
• Overcoming obstacles to measure nitrous oxide emissions
• Restoring wetlands and our environment
• Breaking legume’s crop wild relative barrier
• Researching the impact of natural gas drilling
• Effects of changing tillage practices on sugar beets presented
• Advancing a shared goal for farmers and conservation
• Plant breeding in the 21st century
• Helping Chinese farmers tackle erosion, increase profits
• Carbon cycling in forest soils research presented
• Helping plants adapt to climate change
• Alaska’s climate, soils, highlighted at meeting
• Beyond herbicides in the agricultural landscape
• Towards a climate-smart Mississippi basin
• Sustainability, nutrient management, soil health focus of symposium

August 2017

• On the frontlines of climate change
• Spectroscopy: Simple solution for soil sample
• Partnering with soil microbes essential to plant and animal life
• Woteki to speak on global food security: building the needed research
• Closing the agricultural nutrient gap worldwide
• Progress with tropical maize yields highlighted for lectureship
• Peas that like it hot
• Soil microbes persist through National Mall facelift
• Biochar shows benefits as manure lagoon cover
• Alkaline soil, sensible sensor

July 2017

• Adjusting fertilizers vital in claypan soils
• Kidney beans with better roots, better yield
• Online climate data benefits producers
• Winter cover crop good for soil, cows, profit

June 2017

• Calculating ‘old’ and ‘new’ water runoff
• No mercury accumulation in fish after fire
• Promising peas’ potential in Big Sky Country
• Waste not, want not
• How do the “three sisters” plants work together?

May 2017

• Mining for answers on abandoned mines
• Where you grow what you grow
• When birds of a feather poop together
• Thirsty seeds reach for medicine cabinet
• Doctoring the soil

April 2017

• Corn with a cover of grass
• A better way to manage phosphorus?
• Advocating for ant antics
• Agronomy Feeds the World Videos created
• Cover, crimp, cultivate?
• Sleeping soils get a wake up call

March 2017

• Steering towards grazing fields
• Making “mulch” ado of ant hills
• Wildly stronger sunflowers
• Best of the Ag “Boots on the Ground”!
• Cultivating a city
• Snowpack water hack
• Magic cover crop carpet?

February 2017

• Cultivating cool-for-cash-crops
• Popping potential of sorghum
• Grow, mow, mulch: finding lawn’s value
• Challenges of breeding “VIPeas”

January 2017

• Scientific Societies send “scientific integrity” letter to President Trump
• Floating towards water treatment
• Mighty river, mighty filter
• Changing climate changes soils
• Certified Soil Technician certification announced
• When a mysterious chemical leaks

December 2016

• A library for food security
• Rain out, research in
• Critical zone, critical research

November 2016

• The economy of cold soil blues
• Writing an equation for soil success
• Students, teachers invited to “Grow With It!”
• Matchmaking for coffee?
• Pilgrims and soil: what’s the connection?
• Shedding a light on contaminants

October 2016

• Nutrition information…for cows?
• Wisconsin dairy industry sets standard for sustainability
• Agronomy, crops and soils lectures live streamed
• Growing industrial hemp in eastern Canada: a new frontier
• Soil moisture for crop health topic of symposium
• USAID food security program in review
• Getting maximum profit, minimal pollution
• Symposium to discuss crops grown in semiarid regions
• Sustainable intensification research topic of agronomy symposium
• Symposium promotes versatile, vital pulse crops
• Tidy farms, healthy streams
• Desert, city overlap explored in Phoenix
• Soil: more than meets the eye

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