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News Release | American Society of Agronomy News Release | American Society of Agronomy Skip to main content News Release American Society of Agronomy 5585 Guilford Road • Madison, WI 53711-5801 • 608-273-8080 • Fax 608-273-2021 www.agronomy.org...Facebook | Sustainable, Secure Food Blog NEWS RELEASE Contact: Susan V. Fisk, Public Relations Director, 608-273-8091, sfisk@sciencesocieties.org Going with the flow? Research provides better understanding...predictability is important--but difficult. Soil scientists have struggled with accurately measuring water flow through soil for years. Even the smallest soil details can sway water’s path from the straight, sequential...

News Release | American Society of Agronomy News Release | American Society of Agronomy Skip to main content News Release American Society of Agronomy 5585 Guilford Road • Madison, WI 53711-5801 • 608-273-8080 • Fax 608-273-2021 www.agronomy.org...Secure Food Blog NEWS RELEASE Contact: Susan V. Fisk, Public Relations Director, 608-273-8091, sfisk@sciencesocieties.org Calculating ‘old’ and ‘new’ water runoff Water flow is something old, new, blue June...member of the Watershed Systems Research Program at the University of Manitoba, is measuring water flow in a part of the soil called the vadose zone. Although the name might make you recall scary episodes...

News Releases Archive | American Society of Agronomy News Releases Archive | American Society of Agronomy Skip to main content News Releases Archive September 2015 Covering the bases with cover crops Could “The Martian’s” scientist survive on potatoes alone...alone? Identifying common objectives helpful for crop wild relative researchers "Women in science: Breaking the bias habit" workshop planned Purple bran rice defies convention Connecting phytobiomes with...trees aren’t ‘green’ May 2015 Food or fuel? How about both? New planning toolset gives farmers more options for improving water quality New nutrient management certification offered Gardening in a polluted...

News Release | American Society of Agronomy News Release | American Society of Agronomy Skip to main content News Release American Society of Agronomy 5585 Guilford Road • Madison, WI 53711-5801 • 608-273-8080 • Fax 608-273-2021 www.agronomy.org...org Twitter | Facebook | Sustainable, Secure Food Blog NEWS RELEASE Contact: Susan V. Fisk, Public Relations Director, 608-273-8091, sfisk@sciencesocieties.org Prairie strips transform farmland conservation...financial costs while creating a wide variety of benefits.” Schulte Moore is a team member with STRIPS: Science-based Trials of Rowcrops Integrated with Prairie Strips. STRIPS showed that converting just 10% of...

News Release | American Society of Agronomy News Release | American Society of Agronomy Skip to main content News Release American Society of Agronomy 5585 Guilford Road • Madison, WI 53711-5801 • 608-273-8080 • Fax 608-273-2021 www.agronomy.org...org Twitter | Facebook | Sustainable, Secure Food Blog NEWS RELEASE Contact: Susan V. Fisk, Public Relations Director, 608-273-8091, sfisk@sciencesocieties.org Mighty river, mighty filter Restored floodplain...remove pollutants from the river. One method is reconnecting the river to the floodplain. As rivers flow into floodplains they carry soils with them, creating a wetland. Wetlands trap chemical pollutants...

News Release | American Society of Agronomy News Release | American Society of Agronomy Skip to main content News Release American Society of Agronomy 5585 Guilford Road • Madison, WI 53711-5801 • 608-273-8080 • Fax 608-273-2021 www.agronomy.org...org Twitter | Facebook | Sustainable, Secure Food Blog NEWS RELEASE Contact: Susan V. Fisk, Public Relations Director, 608-273-8091, sfisk@sciencesocieties.org Farming carbon: Study reveals potent carbon...carbon is a big deal—any carbon sinks that we find we should be protecting,” Mitsch says. “Then we’re going even further by saying: We’ve lost half of our wetlands in the United States, so let’s not only protect...

News Release | American Society of Agronomy News Release | American Society of Agronomy Skip to main content News Release American Society of Agronomy 5585 Guilford Road • Madison, WI 53711-5801 • 608-273-8080 • Fax 608-273-2021 www.agronomy.org...org Twitter | Facebook | Sustainable, Secure Food Blog NEWS RELEASE Contact: Susan V. Fisk, Public Relations Director, 608-273-8091, sfisk@sciencesocieties.org Just say ‘No’ to drugs – in water Teen scientist...scientist finds a solution to troubling water quality issues July 29, 2015 - Remember the science fair? For some of us it was an exciting time of creative experimentation. For others it was a time of botched...

News Release | American Society of Agronomy News Release | American Society of Agronomy Skip to main content News Release American Society of Agronomy 5585 Guilford Road • Madison, WI 53711-5801 • 608-273-8080 • Fax 608-273-2021 www.agronomy.org...org Twitter | Facebook | Sustainable, Secure Food Blog NEWS RELEASE Contact: Susan V. Fisk, Public Relations Director, 608-273-8091, sfisk@sciencesocieties.org Winter cover crop good for soil, cows, profit...keep farmers’ livelihood going. Triticale is a winter cover crop that limits the gamble with a trifecta of benefits. Triticale is a wheat-rye hybrid from the late 1800s. In New York State, 15 years of research...

Mighty river, mighty filter | American Society of Agronomy As rivers flow into floodplains they carry soils with them, creating a wetland. Wetlands trap chemical pollutants...“There’s a whole subset of microorganisms that do this,” says White. “You just have to get the process going.” Reconnecting the river to the floodplain isn’t likely for most of the lower Mississippi valley,...nitrogen removal rate was only 28% lower at the restored site compared to the natural one. “The good news is that even though it hasn’t been restored for very long, the process of nitrogen removal has an...

News Release | American Society of Agronomy News Release | American Society of Agronomy Skip to main content News Release American Society of Agronomy 5585 Guilford Road • Madison, WI 53711-5801 • 608-273-8080 • Fax 608-273-2021 www.agronomy.org...org Twitter | Facebook | Sustainable, Secure Food Blog NEWS RELEASE Contact: Susan V. Fisk, Public Relations Director, 608-273-8091, sfisk@sciencesocieties.org Adjusting fertilizers vital in claypan soils...Missouri and Illinois, claypan soils dominate. And where claypans reign, problems for producers abound. New research from the University of Missouri could help claypan farmers improve yields while saving costs...

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