Published on Mar. 30, 2025

I’ve been reading in both popular and scientific press that for soybean fields with low fertility, early planting substitutes for addition of needed soil-based nutrition (Allen, 2025, Loman et al., 2024).

Published on Mar. 30, 2025

Corn fertilizer nitrogen (N) rate recommendations had not been deeply reexamined in 20 years. Additionally, there have been no substantial change to AGR-1 (Ritchey and McGrath, 2020) corn N management recommendations since the 2004-2005 version of the document. Information on the use of urease inhibitors was added at that time.

Published on Mar. 30, 2025

The Kentucky Corn Yield Contest is organized jointly by the University of Kentucky and the Kentucky Corn Growers Association. The yield contest can provide valuable insights into the highest-yielding corn fields across the state.

Published on Mar. 30, 2025

The 2025 fungicide efficacy tables for foliar diseases of corn and soybean, and for soybean seedling diseases have been updated, and are now available through the Crop Protection Network website: https://cropprotectionnetwork.org/.

Published on Mar. 30, 2025

Grain crop fertilizer phosphate (P2O5) and potash (K2O) maintenance rate recommendations in AGR-1 (Ritchey and McGrath, 2020) have not been reexamined since their inception - 1992. Other UK extension faculty (G. Schwab, pers. comm.; B. Lee, pers.

Published on Mar. 24, 2025

It won’t be long before Kentucky farmers start planting the 2025 corn and soybean crops. At this time of the year, farmers are always optimistic, expecting record yields if the weather cooperates. This expectation is a result of the yield trends over the last nearly 100 years.

Published on Mar. 24, 2025

Tariffs are a government tool used to raise the price of forei

Published on Mar. 24, 2025

After a miserably wet February with several spells of unusually cold temps, March is finally bringing spring weather. Along with spring weather comes winter annual weed growth and burndown applications will begin in earnest in the very near future.

Published on Mar. 24, 2025

Replacing, economically, some or all of corn’s fertilizer nitrogen (N) need with biological N fixation (BNF) is becoming a major goal in commercial corn production. With BNF, microbes fix atmospheric N as ammoniacal N and provide additional N nutrition to the crop.

Published on Mar. 14, 2025

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) has existed since 1973 and was implemented to ensure that any actions taken by a government agency did not jeopardize any species that are federally listed as threatened or endangered. So, why are we now talking about this law in 2025, nearly fifty years after its original passing?