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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...