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Using Mulder’s Chart to Simplify Balanced Crop Nutrition

Understanding how nutrients interact in the soil is key to unlocking you...

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Winter Wheat Fertilization

The cornerstone of profitable crop production is a sound soil fertility ...

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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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Soil Test Levels and Crop Response to Fertilizers

Soil scientists and consultants often get confronted with these question...

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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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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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5 Soil Sampling Tips

Soil test results are only as good as the quality of the soil samples. W...

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Drought and Fertilization

Drought is a simple and unfortunate fact of life that farmers must endur...

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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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Soil Testing—Calibration and Interpretation

Perhaps the greatest challenge in soil testing is calibration of the tes...

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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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Case Study: Indiana’s Fairholme Farms

Both Kim Drackett and Randy Bales describe 1,850-acre Fairholme Farms as...

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Is Population Growth Demanding More Aggressive Nutrient Replenishment?

There are a number of factors indicating the need for producers to incre...

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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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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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IPNI Corn Belt Fertility Study: 2010

The status of soil fertility levels is an indicator of the sustainabilit...

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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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Preparing for a Hefty Harvest…And Beyond

The growing season of 2014 has the potential to yield a record harvest i...

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Preparing Fields for Soybeans Following a Record Corn Harvest

Despite record corn yields in some parts of the country, low commodity p...

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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 ...

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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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Unlocking Soybean Yield Potential with Crop Nutrition

There are bushels out in your soybean acres just waiting for an artful h...

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Risk Management Begins with the Soil

Volatile prices, changing foreign markets and weather events represent s...

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