Science news articles about 'agronomy journal'

  • Keeping yields, profits and water quality high

    ... . Results from the study were published in the May-June 2008 issue of Agronomy Journal. The experiment included a two-year, corn-soybean rotation, a three-year corn-soybean-small ...
  • Organic corn: Increasing rotation complexity increases yields

    ... . Results from the study, which was funded by USDA-ARS, were published in the May-June issue of Agronomy Journal. The researchers collected data on crop yields, nitrogen inputs, weed densities, and ...
  • Where is your soil water? Crop yield has the answer

    ... water capacity using traditional laboratory methods. This research was published in the May-June issue of Agronomy Journal. Results showed that measured plant-available water capacity correlated with ...
  • Crop management: How small do we go?

    ... the precision with which farmers can manage their crops. Recently released research in Agronomy Journal questions whether more precise management is necessarily more efficient. They discovered that ...
  • No-tillage plus

    ... farming more productive and sustainable. New research from Agronomy Journal shows that no-till management ... Journal, show that no-tillage management combined with crop rotations including winter cover ...
  • Can biofuels be sustainable?

    ... skyrocketing, the search is on for efficient and sustainable biofuels. Research published this month in Agronomy Journal examines one biofuel crop contender: corn stover. Corn stover is made up of ...
  • A little nitrogen can go a long way

    ... and grain, site-specific management - especially in variable rate nitrogen application -- can have a significant impact on yield and profitability, as reported in the latest issue of Agronomy Journal.
  • Experiment demonstrates 110 years of sustainable agriculture

    ... the entire 110-yr history of this experiment. It was published in the September-October issue of Agronomy Journal, and provides insight into issues both past and present that effect sustainable crop ...
  • Tillage, rotation impacts peanut crops

    ... crops. The study, conducted at North Carolina State University, was recently published in Agronomy Journal, and was funded in part by the North Carolina Peanut Growers Association and the National ...
  • Managing carbon loss

    ... feedstock is of agricultural and environmental concern. In the November-December 2008 issue of Agronomy Journal, scientists from Michigan State University report on the effectiveness of carbon ...
  • Preventing soil erosion in continuous corn

    ... for optimizing N use in such systems. A recent article in the November-December issue of Agronomy Journal summarized the results of field experiments conducted during 2006 and 2007 at four locations ...
  • Plant soybean early to increase yield

    ... by near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy. A recent article in the January-February 2009 issue of Agronomy Journal gives detailed results from this study. This research was presented at the American ...
  • Will large amounts of soil carbon be released if grasslands are converted to energy crops?

    ... meeting of the Soil Science Society of America in Houston, TX, and are published in the March-April 2009 issue of Agronomy Journal. During the 6 years of the study, the origin of the ...
  • No consistent advantage for planting soybean early

    ... planting date experiments and published their findings in the March-April 2009 issue of the Agronomy Journal. The scientists analyzed combined results of planting date experiments from ...
  • Can organic cropping systems be as profitable as conventional systems?

    ... study are presented by Chavas et al. in the 2009 March–April issue of Agronomy Journal. "In our study we found that diversified systems were more profitable than monocropping," explains Joshua Posner ...

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