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Nancy Kavazanjian Nancy Kavazanjian
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U.S. Senate confirms Tom Vilsack as Biden's agriculture secretary

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Tom Vilsack to head the Department of Agriculture, returning the former Iowa governor to the job he held under ex-President Barack Obama. The 100-member Senate approved Vilsack 92-7. As secretary of the sprawling department, Vilsack will oversee about 100,000 employees responsible for food stamps, crop insurance, land conservation and other missions at a time U.S. farmers are benefiting from high soybean and corn prices but hunger is on the rise throughout America.

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John LaRose Jr. John LaRose Jr.
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Nancy Kavazanjian Nancy Kavazanjian
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right now it appears that the N just doesn’t evaporate, but given the clays in our soils, and the nature of N mineralization in these cover crops, the N may be tied up in the clay inter-layers, at least temporarily.

Nitrogen Credit from Cover Crops?? (07/18/19) — Crop & Pest Report

Most information on cover crops in books and even from some farmer-speakers indicate that if the carbon (C) to nitrogen (N) ratio (C/N ratio) of the cover crop is less than 30 to 1 then N will be released to the next crop.

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Randy Krotz Randy Krotz
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