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Cover Crops Provide Habitat for Predator Insects that May Help Control

By Maria M. Lameiras | University of Georgia CAES Using cover crops for growing cotton usually goes like this: After harvest, cotton fields are planted with a cover crop like rye. Before cotton is planted the next season, the cover crop is killed and rolled flat on top of the soil, and cotton seeds are planted using …

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Weed Goes Off Script to Resist Herbicides

PHOTO CUTLINE: From left: Seth Strom, Dean Riechers, and Crystal ConcepcionPhoto by Lauren Quinn Lauren Quinn | University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences  URBANA, Ill. – Cementing waterhemp’s reputation as a hard-to-kill weed in corn and soybean production systems, University of Illinois researchers have now documented the weed deviating from standard detoxification …

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Auburn research examines nutrient loss in soybeans

From staff reports According to a new report by Auburn University’s Jacqueline Kochak, Auburn University is conducting research into why soybean lose nutrients as levels of carbon dioxide increase. Alvaro Sanz-Saez, a crop physiologist in the Auburn College of Agriculture and Courtney Leisner, a specialist in genomics-enabled plant physiology from the Auburn College of Science …

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Ohio State, Purdue, Illinois publish weed control guide

Weed control is a critical mission in the push to have a healthier crop and increase yield. To help farmers better understand ways of controlling weed pressures common to the Midwest, extension services from The Ohio State University, Purdue University and the University of Illinois have collaborated to publish “The 2022 Ohio, Indiana and Illinois …

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