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Identifying Boron Deficiency in All Crops
One of the micronutrients essential for crop health also happens to be o...
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Winter Wheat Fertilization
The cornerstone of profitable crop production is a sound soil fertility ...
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Deficiency ID: Minimizing the Impact of Nutrient Deficiencies
Midseason scouting is a best management practice engaged in by every far...
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Understanding Zinc Deficiency
Zinc (Zn) has been put to work on farms for decades. Fencing wire and na...
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5 Soil Sampling Tips
Soil test results are only as good as the quality of the soil samples. W...
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Five Questions to Ask About Your Soil Testing Program
Regular soil testing is one of the best tools for determining which nutr...
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Soil Testing: Behind the Scenes
Spoiler alert: There is no magic black box where a clod of soil or a pla...
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Soil Test Levels and Crop Response to Fertilizers
Soil scientists and consultants often get confronted with these question...
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Best Management Practices: Soil Testing
Soil testing is one of the most important management practices for crop ...
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Drought and Fertilization
Drought is a simple and unfortunate fact of life that farmers must endur...
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Variability in Soil Test Potassium
When we make a fertilizer recommendation for a farmer, what is it based ...
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The Soil Fertility Checklist
When it comes to crop nutrition and your soil fertility plan, you need t...
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Soil Testing—Calibration and Interpretation
Perhaps the greatest challenge in soil testing is calibration of the tes...
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Plant Health: Heed Nutrient Levels at Critical Growth Stages
Nutrient testing equals quality control, according to Dr. Dave Mengel, p...
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Managing Phosphorus Soil Test Values
Soil testing is the farmer’s best tool for determining and managing phos...
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Third-Party Soil Sampling: What You Need to Know
Soil sampling and testing is one of the best tools we have to assess fie...
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Case Study: Indiana’s Fairholme Farms
Both Kim Drackett and Randy Bales describe 1,850-acre Fairholme Farms as...
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Trusting Soil Testing – Keys to Obtaining a Reliable Report
Obtaining valuable information from a soil test begins with collecting a...
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Tissue Testing Can Save Your Crop
Tissue testing and plant analysis date back to the 19th century. Since t...
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IPNI Corn Belt Fertility Study: 2010
The status of soil fertility levels is an indicator of the sustainabilit...
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Scouting Soybeans for Deficiencies and More
With the potential for higher soybean yields with each passing year, the...
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Expanding the Nutrient Management Toolbox: Using Tissue Sampling
Tissue sampling is a common tool that can provide meaningful data, but i...
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My Soil Tests Are Complete. Now What?
The first step in effectively using soil test results to your advantage ...
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Soybean Aphids Flourish Where Potassium Is Deficient
Have you ever seen a soybean field where aphids infested some areas more...
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‘C.H.E.C.K.’ It Out: A Helpful Checklist for Uniform Nutrient Application
If your nutrient application isn’t uniform, then you really don’t know h...
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Yield Success in 2015 Is Dependent on Nutrient Levels
As growers in the Midwest pulled planters across their acreage, many wer...
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Soybean Nutrient Recommendations
Soil test calibration research conducted by Dr. Antonio Mallarino with t...
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Helping Local Farmers Find Higher Yields
He knows the land, and the growers. Of course, being so close to the peo...
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The Right Time for Soil and Tissue Testing
The right time to take soil samples is in rhythm with the crop rotation....
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Testing The Testers
Unfenced pitched questions to three experts, to dig deeper into testing ...