crop production
Flexible Soil Model Maps Remote Areas
Bruce Frazier and Richard Rupp of Washington State University and Toby Rodgers and Crystal Briggs of Soil Survey conducted this work in the Pasayten River…
Calcium Helps Evaluate Soil’s Ability to Retain Earth’s Carbon
Soils play a vital role in dealing with the environmental impacts of rising atmospheric carbon levels, primarily CO2, from natural and human activities. The…
Corn Yield Stability Varies with Rotations, Fertility
Understanding temporal variability in crop yields has implications for sustainable crop production, particularly since greater fluxes in crop yields are…
Certified Crop Adviser Program Developed for South Asia
The American Society of Agronomy (ASA), an international scientific society based in Madison, WI, will develop and implement a highly qualified workforce…
Grasslands: the Future of Sustainable Agriculture
Grassland: Quietness and Strength for a New American Agriculture was written to increase our awareness of the vital role grass and grassland plants have in…
Food Security: It Starts with Seed
With each passing year, the human population of our planet continues to expand. This growth has created a wide ranging strain on our water and soil resources,…