1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (1006+ words) This is a visual response of wheat to alfalfa rotations compared with grain-wheat rotation, and effects of nitrogen fertilizers. Image by Daniel Putnam. For optimum health and production, forages need adequate soil fertility. Some soils are deficient in certain important…...

2+ week, 8+ hour ago  (212+ words) Illustration by Corey Lewis. As part of the University of Idaho's summer fellow program, undergraduate student Libby Blattner studied the existing literature and interviewed Idaho ranchers and cattle buyers to help provide that answer. Furthermore, the use of marketing alliances…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (1128+ words) Illustration by Philip Warren. What the heck is a carbon credit? Nicki Nimlos, a doctoral student at the University of Wyoming, says that's a question she's heard often over the last couple of years. Around 2023, when Nimlos was beginning her…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (631+ words) A group of drip totes are tied together through a metered drip box at the top of Twin Falls Reservoir. Each tote has 275 gallons of molluscicide that can be metered out for treatment to eradicate quagga mussels in the middle…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (535+ words) Kernza perennial grain, planted in 2023 at Colorado State University's Fruita Research Center, is being evaluated for water-use efficiency and its role in supporting forage diversification in western Colorado. Image by Perry Cabot. Across the Upper Colorado River Basin, forage crops…...