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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...Sustainable, Secure Food Blog NEWS RELEASE Contact: Susan V. Fisk, Public Relations Director, 608-273-8091, sfisk@sciencesocieties.org One crop, two ways, multiple benefits Pulse crop adds long-term nitrogen...nitrogen, carbon to soil Jan. 6, 2016 - Nitrogen fixation is one of the best examples of cooperation in nature. Soil microbes – naturally occurring bacteria in the soil – work with plants to pull nitrogen from...

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 To bear or not to bear a seed Non-bearing spikelets...spikelets nurture seed production Feb. 20, 2019 - The plant world works in mysterious ways. We often think of plants producing flowers so those flowers can produce seeds for the next generation. But what...

News Releases Archive | American Society of Agronomy News Releases Archive | American Society of Agronomy Skip to main content News Releases Archive September 2016 One Health environmental program topic of symposium Solution blooming for fracking spills...health, production Novel crops topic of symposium Lecture to discuss ag innovations in arid regions Organic panic: finding the right combination Symposium addresses the science of the rhizosphere Symposium...engineering report findings supported by Crop, Agronomy Societies City of second chance soils From broken to teaming with life Keeping a pulse on the soil April 2016 Crop advances grow with protection Bringing...

To bear or not to bear a seed | American Society of Agronomy bear or not to bear a seed February 20, 2019 - Kaine Korzekwa The plant world works in mysterious ways. We often think of plants producing flowers so those flowers can produce seeds for the next generation...Plant Science Center, is trying to unravel this mystery in plants that are grown as crops. In particular, she studies what are considered the wild relatives of sorghum. These wild plants produce two sorts...sorts of flowers. Some produce seeds and some don’t. Crop wild relatives are the original plants prior to human cultivation. Over hundreds of years, humans selected seeds from the plants with the best traits...

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...Sustainable, Secure Food Blog NEWS RELEASE Contact: Susan V. Fisk, Public Relations Director, 608-273-8091, sfisk@sciencesocieties.org Food or fuel? How about both? Dual cropping camelina and soybean in the...Camelina is a member of the mustard family and an emerging biofuel crop. It is well suited as a cover crop in the Midwest. “Finding any annual crop that will survive the [Midwest] winters is pretty difficult...

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 Gypsum as an agricultural product This common...can increase yields, improve soil Feb. 6, 2019 - Warren Dick has worked with gypsum for more than two decades. You’d think he’d be an expert on drywall and plastering because both are made from gypsum...

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...Sustainable, Secure Food Blog NEWS RELEASE Contact: Susan V. Fisk, Public Relations Director, 608-273-8091, sfisk@sciencesocieties.org Building a bean that resists leafhoppers Promising new pinto bean released with...smaller than a grain of rice. But they can cause big damage to crops, including beans. In temperate areas, leafhoppers can cause bean crop losses of up to 20 percent. They are even more damaging in tropical...

Gypsum as an agricultural product | American Society of Agronomy Fisk Warren Dick has worked with gypsum for more than two decades. You’d think he’d be an expert on drywall and plastering because both are made from gypsum...might be unfamiliar to you: on farmland. “Gypsum is a good source of both calcium and sulfur, which crops need for good yields,” says Dick. “We also found that it improves many other soil characteristics...soils to lakes and streams and improves the quality of various fruits and vegetables, among other benefits.” Gypsum is a mineral that is naturally found concentrated in various places and can be mined out...

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 Technology can help speed soil recovery after...time-consuming. Nuwan Wijewardane at University of Nebraska-Lincoln knew there had to be a better way. He and his team found a new method using state-of-the-art technology that is faster and cheaper. It lets scientists...

Building a bean that resists leafhoppers | American Society of Agronomy But they can cause big damage to crops, including beans. In temperate areas, leafhoppers can cause bean crop losses of up to 20 percent. They are even more damaging in tropical...infestations can lead to crop losses of more than 75 percent. To combat the leafhopper threat, researchers are continuously trying to develop resistant varieties of crops. In a new study, Tim Porch and his...his team describe a new pinto bean, called TARS-LH1. Porch is a researcher at the USDA-ARS Tropical Agriculture Research Station in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. This new pinto bean has increased resistance to...

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