During a tight-margin year like 2026, understanding soil fertility and identifying yield-limiting factors are keys to ...

Learn when to sample corn plants, how to interpret results and how to use tissue testing data to improve your nutrient ...

Yichao Rui, assistant professor of agronomy, inspects soil in a cornfield at Purdue University's Water Quality Field Station. Rui leads a study investigating the viability of using kura clover as a ...

Well-managed soils are the foundation of high yields. Yet compaction, nutrient imbalance and poor structure can limit performance. A gypsum soil amendment can provide a practical solution by supplying ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Soil crucial to sequestering carbon but challenges in monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) Scientists and farmers ...

A recent study from the University of Illinois shows that gene-edited bacteria can supply the equivalent of 35 pounds of nitrogen from the air during early corn growth, which may reduce the crop’s ...

To grow good plants, you need good soil. The only way to tell what your soil really needs is to take a soil test. Applying too much fertilizer could be detrimental to your plants. You could waste ...

In recent years, there have been tremendous improvements in the development of super sweet corn varieties that can germinate well in cold soil. You enter the corn field and start walking down a row.

If corn was ever jealous of soybean's relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, advancements in gene editing could one day even the playing field. A recent study shows that gene-edited bacteria can ...