5. Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC). This, plus base saturation levels, help characterize soil type, Friedericks says. Together, they show how a soil can hold specific plant nutrients in the profile.

Researchers Unpick How Corn-Soy Rotation Impacts Soil Carbon Emissions While the majority of Midwestern farmers rotate corn and soybeans, some plant corn year after year. News . Published: June 25, ..

Analysis of soil and tissue samples shows that many cases of striping are due to sulfur deficiency. "We used to get quite a bit of sulfur from rainfall. The power plants would burn coal that had ...

High-Resolution Indicators of Soil Microbial Responses to N Fertilization and Cover Cropping in Corn Monocultures. Agronomy , 2022; 12 (4): 954 DOI: 10.3390/agronomy12040954 ...

The soil was so depleted, Haslett-Marroquin says, he thought of it as a “corn and soybean desert.” Soon after, he applied 13 tons of compost, sowed a mix of prairie grasses and rye, and ...

Continuous corn planted on heavier soil types; Rotated corn planted on heavier soils following soybeans with heavy infestation of volunteer corn or weeds. White Grubs and Wireworms. A. Sampling: - ...

Ag News Wire By David Nicolai, University of Minnesota Extension Corn planting is still weeks away in much of Minnesota because of wet conditions and cool soils. Long-term data from the University … ...

No one in Ketelhut’s area has started planting corn yet and that’s because of the cold soil temperatures. According to South Dakota State’s Mesonet, a network of 41 weather stations, 4-inch ...

Using historical commodity prices, the researchers found that corn-soy rotation offered higher economic returns — up to $458/acre ($1,133/hectare) more than continuous corn — at low nitrogen ...