WORTHINGTON -- If you are a crop producer in southern Minnesota, odds are you have had your share of drowned out spots in fields this year. Depending on field drainage and the rainfall received, there ...

Selective spraying is the technology of detecting weeds in a crop or on fallow ground and only spraying the weed. The reduction in herbicides can be between 60% and 90%, depending on the weed density ...

ST. PAUL - A special Environmental Quality Incentive Program is now available to promote the use of cover crops on Minnesota farmland that couldn't be planted this spring because of wet conditions.

In the study of shifting cultivation systems, fallow duration is seen as the key determinant of vegetation and soil dynamics: long fallows renew soil fertility, biomass, and biodiversity. However, ...

Amid the semiarid grain fields of Kansas, Thomas County farmer Steve Ziegelmeier was searching for an alternative. It was 2008, and Ziegelmeier wanted a bridge crop to plant between dryland corn and ...

Ramganj’s 19 brick kilns burn approximately 1.5 million cubic feet of soil each year, most of which is sourced from fertile ...

While the 2020 growing season was relatively to abnormally dry for much of Minnesota, there were pockets of the state where fields were too wet for crops to be harvested. Fallowed fields can present ...