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Moisture Levels Critical to Cover Crop Decisions

By Stan Wise posted on July 24, 2023 | Posted in Cover Crops

Source: South Dakota Soil Health Coalition

Cover crops offer a wide range of potential benefits for producers – better nutrient cycling, more weed suppression, more livestock forage, better soil structure, increased soil organic matter and healthier soil microbial communities. To reap those benefits, producers need to make some careful decisions.

Consumer Physics Launches Portable Dry Matter Analyzer

July 20, 2020 | Posted in Precision Agriculture

The smartphone-operated device transforms feed analysis by enabling frequent dry matter analysis, which aids in ensuring consistent dry matter intake, reducing feed leftovers, and planning harvest timing at optimal moisture levels.

Have Our SCN Sorrows Been Drowned?

June 29, 2019 | Posted in Crop Protection

Source: Iowa State University Extension

Has the recent extreme overabundance of moisture drowned soybean cyst nematodes? Unfortunately, writes the Iowa State University Extension, the answer is no.

Proper Soil Health Best Tool for Getting Livestock Operation Through Drought

August 24, 2017 | Posted in Soil Health, Water Management

Source: North Dakota State University Extension

With the current drought in the Dakotas, livestock producers should ponder how improving soil health can improve utilization of available moisture and mitigate the negative effects of dryness, says North Dakota State University Extension.

Good Residue Management Practices

May 11, 2016 | Posted in Residue Management

Ben Cordes, an agronomist with the Victorian No-Till Farmers Assn. in Australia, discusses the need for proper residue management to retain moisture levels and “create a bigger bucket.”

Why You Should Consider Harvesting Soybeans Earlier

September 30, 2015 | Posted in Crop Protection

Source: Michigan State University Extension

Michigan State University Extension suggests harvesting some soybean fields at 15% moisture as a way to reduce risk and improve farm income.

Early Maturing Wheat Could Open Door For Double-Crop Soybeans

June 19, 2012 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Source: Ohio State University

The near-record warm winter the Midwest experienced this year, combined with the early and unusually warm spring, has caused wheat to mature sooner than normal, which could let farmers plant a second crop like soybeans to increase their profit potential using the same land.

Cutting-Edge Drainage Tools Give No-Till A Boost

New technologies and methods are helping growers manage moisture levels in their fields and improve the timeliness of farming operations.

By John Dobberstein posted on August 1, 2011 | Posted in Precision Agriculture, Water Management

With wet weather in recent years creating poor field conditions and delaying planting and harvesting, drainage is becoming an even more critical tool.

Ridge Till Continues To Gain Popularity

The winner of the Phoenix Rotary Equipment Ltd. conservation tillage essay contest explains the benefits of ridge tilling.

By Alan Bonifas posted on May 1, 2002 | Posted in Crop Protection, Residue Management, Soil Health

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, many farmers in south-central Nebraska began drilling irrigation wells as they began flood irrigating row crops in furrows.

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