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Digging in the dirt: Researchers develop new methods for assessing risk of
subsurface phosphorus
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University
of Delaware via ScienceDaily
When it comes to advancing nutrient management planning for croplands
across the United States, it is important to evaluate phosphorus indices to
ensure accurate phosphorus loss risk assessment. New methods for assessing
the loss of phosphorus in soil have now been developed by researchers.
While current measurements focus mainly on surface runoff, the new research
is looking at the best way to measure the risk of underground phosphorus
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Farmers have a lot of questions about water quality. Researchers at
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Penn
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and fish populations in rivers such as the Susquehanna experiencing gender
skewing and other reproductive abnormalities, understanding how to minimize
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Scientists compare soil microbes in no-till, conventional tilling systems
of Pacific Northwest farms
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American
Phytopathological Society via Phys.org
In recent decades, growers have increasingly been adopting no-till farming
to reduce soil erosion and decrease fuel, labor and inputs. Wheat farmers
of the inland Pacific Northwest, however, have been slower to adopt
no-till, in part because they see more incidence of fungal soil-borne
diseases when crop residues accumulate in the field. However, over longer
periods of time, researchers saw these fungal disease outbreaks decrease
after farmers continuously practiced no-till over multiple seasons.  READ
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Successful
Farming
Abbey Wick sees the healthiest soils when there are three or more crops in
rotation. The North Dakota State University Extension soil health
specialist encourages farmers to take a systems approach to manage soil
health. Part of that system is to diversify crop rotation so the soil
microbes have different food sources, which ultimately makes soil
healthier.  READ MORE
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Courier-Post
Northeast Missouri farmers have been using a variety of techniques to boost
productivity, but conservation is also a key benefit of the mixture of
technology, innovative land management processes and a great deal of hard
work to bring it all together. With cutting-edge technology, new chemistry
and constant developments in land, like no-till farming and tile terraces,
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The soil solution: One reason to be optimistic about the environment is
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As a young geologist, it took me a while to appreciate the importance of
soil and the opportunity soil restoration presents for addressing key
challenges humanity now faces. Over time, studying how erosion moves rock,
sediment and soil to shape landscapes, I became familiar with how soil both
influences and reflects the evolution of topography. But I also came to
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Long-term study aims to understand prairie ecology after farmland is
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Across the U.S., farmers have abandoned millions of acres of land due to
economics and hindrances such as dropping water tables that make irrigation
of crops impossible. Since 2001, a longstanding study at the University of
Kansas has improved researchers' grasp of how to restore native prairie
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Federal officials say Vermont farmers are making progress in their effort
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Resources Conservation Service comes as Gov. Phil Scott and other state
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Washington Post
Agriculture has historically released almost as much carbon into the
atmosphere as deforestation, a new study suggests — and that's saying
something. In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, researchers found that land use changes associated with planting
crops and grazing livestock have caused a loss of 133 billion tons of
carbon from soil worldwide over the last 12,000 years, amounting to about
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