Conservation/Tillage
John LaRose Jr. John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Agriculture Global, Conservation/Tillage, Sustainability,
Nancy Kavazanjian Nancy Kavazanjian
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Topics: Soybeans, Conservation/Tillage,
TOPIC(S): Education U.S. MidWest, Conservation/Tillage, Research,

03/09/2023 SOURCE: iowastatedaily.com

Research farms used as test-beds for agriculture industries

The Iowa State Research Farms contributed to the advancement of new biofuel crops across the Midwest. The research farms were established in 1864. Since then, Iowa State has been expanding their research farms to every county in Iowa, adding up to approximately 16,000 acres worth of land today. Nicholas Boersma, a research scientist and site...

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TOPIC(S): Carbon Farming, Climate Change, Conservation/Tillage, Soil Health, USDA, Government / Policies,
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Abandoned Farm Fields Take Decades to Recover Biodiversity—If They Can At All

How much does agriculture impact our environment? A new study, published in the Journal of Ecology, shows that, even after 80 years, sites that had once been used for farming still had not bounced back to the levels of plant diversity and robustness they had before human intervention.  The study looked at 17 different grassland sites, along test plots at the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve in Minnesota. Each of the grasslands had previously been plowed and used for farming, but they were abandoned as early as 1927 and as recently as 2015. Since then, the fields have been left

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TOPIC(S): Cover Crops, Conservation/Tillage, Carbon Farming,
TOPIC(S): Education U.S. MidWest, Conservation/Tillage, Research, Ag Tech,

01/10/2023 SOURCE: ag.purdue.edu

Expansive agricultural dataset now available from Purdue University

An expansive, multi-decadal agricultural dataset is now available from Purdue University. The Southeast Purdue Agricultural Center (SEPAC) drainage research data are from a long-term subsurface drainage project that was conducted at SEPAC in Jennings County, Indiana from 1984 to 2020. SEPAC is one of eight Purdue Agricultural Centers (PACs) across Indiana that researchers use to conduct applied field crop and animal research. This project was funded in part by the Agricultural Research and Graduate Education (ARGE) office at Purdue and the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

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TOPIC(S): Agriculture US, Conservation/Tillage, Water, Climate Change, Weather, Carbon Farming,
TOPIC(S): Agriculture US, Conservation/Tillage,

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