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Author: Edith Munro

Managing nutrient loss

THE IOWA EXPERIENCE

March 2018 - THE U.S. AGRICULTURAL sector is under pressure to reduce nitrate-nitrogen (N) losses by 40%. In Iowa, efforts to improve drainage water quality through nutrient management have focused on the 4Rs of nutrient stewardship: Right Source…
Split nitrogen application on corn

U.S. STUDIES QUESTION BENEFITS

February 2018 - SEVERAL FACTORS — INCLUDING the drive to improve yields, pressures to use less nitrogen (N) or use it more effectively, the availability of high clearance equipment — are prompting more U.S. grain producers to try…
Uncertainty

U.S. AGRICULTURE IN 2018

January 2018 - A NEW PRESIDENTIAL administration always means adjustments for U.S. agriculture, but the first year of the Trump presidency has been uniquely unsettling. The resulting uncertainty may produce exceptional challenges in 2018 affecting infrastructure, trade, and…
Damaging impact

THE 2017 HURRICANE SEASON

December 2017 - THE 2017 HURRICANE season — Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate — savaged a wide range of U.S. agricultural sectors, producing immediate crop losses and longer term damage that is still hard to quantify. TEXAS In…
Dicamba damage on U.S. fields

ESTIMATES TOP THREE MILLION ACRES

November 2017 - HEADING INTO THE soybean harvest, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) extension experts put instances of dicamba damage to the crop at 3.1 million acres, approximately 3.5% of U.S. soybean plantings this year. That figure could…
Web Special

World wheat outlook

SURPLUS AND SHORTAGE

September 2017 - WORLD WHEAT PRODUCTION topped 754 million metric tons and the world wheat supply neared 980 million tons in August estimates. Economists had raised their projections for the former Soviet Union by 8.6 million tons. With…
U.S. exports to Cuba

U.S. EXPORTS TO CUBA

September 2017 - CUBA’S 12 MILLION people represent an untapped potential market for corn, soybean, and wheat exports, but the ongoing U.S. embargo against Cuba makes it unlikely that U.S. farmers will make major inroads into that market…
Uncertainty for U.S. agriculture

THE EARLY IMPACT OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

June 2017 - PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S approach to governing and his administration’s issues agenda are producing even more uncertainty for U.S. agriculture this year than is typical during a change of president. There are indications that agriculture is…
Midwestern crop threat

INCREASING RESISTANCE

March 2017 - RESISTANCE ISSUES, AND especially herbicide resistance, were a dominant concern for growers and Iowa State extension agronomists at this winter’s series of Crop Advantage workshops.
Emerging corn diseases

CONCERNS SOUTH OF THE BORDER

March 2017 - PLANT PATHOLOGISTS AT Iowa State University Extension are red-flagging three newly emerging corn diseases and asking farmers to submit possible samples during the coming crop season.