Crop Management

Checking seeding depth. Photo by Alexander Lindsey.

Seeding: Back to the Basics

May 1, 2024

Identified in the Pacific Northwest in 2012, late-maturity alpha-amylase (LMA) occurs during grain filling in immature seeds and has no visual phenotype, making contamination with sound grain very easy.

A Simple Test for Determining the Late-Maturity Alpha-Amylase Susceptibility Window in Wheat

May 1, 2024

Photo by Deepak Ghimire.

UAS for Precision Agriculture: State of the Art, Challenges, and Future Perspectives

March 1, 2024

Heat Stress in Canola

Heat Stress in Canola: Paving a Path Forward for Varieties With Improved Tolerance

January 1, 2024

Field, Lab, Earth

Cover Crop Questions

January 1, 2024

Photo courtesy of AdobeStock/Kenneth Keifer.

The Corn Chronicles: Knowing Corn’s Past Helps Next Season’s Hybrid Selection

January 1, 2024

Long-term winter wheat–winter pea cover crop plots, which replaced long-term winter wheat–fallow plots at the Columbia Plateau Conservation Research Center, located 9 mi northeast of Pendleton, OR.

Winter Wheat Response to Winter Pea Cover Crop Under Dryland Cropping

January 1, 2024

Photo by Edwin Remsberg

Economics of Cover Crops

September 21, 2023

AI-generated image courtesy of Adobe Stock/Trendy Image Two.

Citrus, Too, Benefits From Cover Crops

September 13, 2023

Figure 1. Photos of untreated, aggressively growing cotton in the middle of the season (A; Photo by J. Lee) and cotton near the end of the season showing excessive vegetative growth and very limited reproductive growth near the top of the plant (B; Photo by L.C. Hand).

Regulating Plant Growth in Cotton

July 20, 2023

Webinar: The High Cost of Inefficient Nitrogen

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