Growing plants can be a joyous, yet frustrating process as plants require a delicate balance of nutrients, sun, and water to ...

In collaboration with professors at the University, researchers are working on a new nitrogen-retaining corn breed.

Farmers will need to be able to show farm records, receipts, delivery tickets, and any as-applied maps. Geo-stamp photos will ...

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture advises farmers and fertilizer applicators to check soil temperatures when timing ...

Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions of up to 26% are possible within current grass-fed beef farming, according to a new study. Several different interventions were modelled: Adopting nitrification ...

Now is the time to evaluate late-emerged wheat fields for yield potential. Last fall, some wheat fields in Pennsylvania emerged late, while others failed to emerge altogether. This was primarily due ...

IT has been reported 1 that when a virgin soil is brought under cultivation, the percentage of total nitrogen usually falls off with time up to a limiting value. A loss of nitrogen from soils on ...

Introduction: Soil ammonia oxidation, which acts as the first and rate-limiting step of nitrification, is driven by ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB), ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and complete ...

Soil environmental factors affected the nitrification potential by affecting the structure of ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms; specific and rare AOA and AOB rather than the whole AOA or AOB community ...

AGRICULTURAL AND FARM NEWS Now, as soil temperatures cool down below 50 degrees at the surface 6 inch soil depth, is the time to plan your nitrogen management for 2014. The first important ...