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AGVISE Laboratories: Measuring Soil Health
Carbon is the currency of nature: the backbone of soil organic matter an...
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Testing’s Role in Continuous Yield Improvement
Whether striving to reach 300-bushel-per-acre corn, 80-bushel-per-acre s...
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Weather’s Impact on Nutrient Management
The last few years have thrown many growers a curveball in terms of weat...
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Plan Now for Effective Fertilizer Management
It's a good idea to start planning for this spring’s fertilizer applicat...
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Soil Testing: When, Why and How
Although soil testing continues to be a best soil management practice, t...
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Good Options, Better Options: A Look into Soil Sampling
Soil sampling has adapted and evolved over time. As genetics, crop nutri...
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Soil Strategies that Work (and Work and Work…)
For any successful business owner, planning for the long term requires t...
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Unfenced Answers: Adequate Micronutrient Levels?
'As much as 60 percent of yield depends on soil fertility,' says Curt Wo...
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Precision: Putting Proper Nutrition Where it Belongs
Today's technology provides the opportunity for increased ROI from crop ...
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Soil Testing in a New Era of Nutrient Management
Precision agriculture means many things to many people. When it comes to...
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Make Plans for Fall Fertilizer
Each harvest comes with a degree of soil nutrient removal, depending on ...
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Five Considerations to Get Your Crops Off to a Good Start
Five things to consider to get your growing season off to the best start...
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Serving Growers with Certainty at The Most Uncertain Time
As growers prepare to get into the field, consider offering these tips t...
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What Your Next Physical Can Teach You About Corn Care
When an agronomist visits a field to diagnose a problem, it’s not unlike...
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Plan Now for Your 2014 Fertility Program
Even before the 2013 crop is in the bin, growers should begin putting th...
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Risk Management Begins with the Soil
Volatile prices, changing foreign markets and weather events represent s...
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Solving the Right Time Puzzle
When it comes to the 4Rs of crop nutrition (right source, right rate, ri...
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Source Soundly for Success
Accommodating and instituting best management practices to achieve this ...
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Dr. Tom Bruulsema’s Five Key Considerations for Better Placement
'When you look at plant roots and consider that, for example, a nutrient...
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Right State of Mind for Right Rate
For Dr. Paul E. Fixen of the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IP...
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Placing with Purpose
To say Dr. Tom Bruulsema wrote the book on 4R Nutrient Stewardship isn't...
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Unfenced Answers: Incorporating Manure into Your Fertility Plan
According to Mike Ballweg, a University of Wisconsin Extension soils and...
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Testing The Testers
Unfenced pitched questions to three experts, to dig deeper into testing ...
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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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‘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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Soybean Nutrient Recommendations
Soil test calibration research conducted by Dr. Antonio Mallarino with t...
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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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My Soil Tests Are Complete. Now What?
The first step in effectively using soil test results to your advantage ...
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Annual Phosphorus Application and Long-Term Soil Productivity
Many of the soils in North America, and around the world, have available...
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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...