Soil Management
Spotlight
Upcoming Events
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Introduction to Soils
February 8, 2012
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2+2 Pesticide Recertification Meeting
February 28, 2012
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2+2 Pesticide Recertification Meeting
February 28, 2012
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Southwest Crops Conference
February 29, 2012
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Southwest PA Crops Conference - Uniontown, PA
February 29, 2012
Penn State Soil Management
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Welcome to Penn State’s Soil Management Web site. Soil is the foundation of terrestrial life. It provides many essential ecosystem functions, such as providing a medium for plants to grow in, absorbing, filtering, and slowly releasing water, housing bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, arthroprods, and higher level animals, recycling nutrients and organic wastes, and storing and releasing greenhouse gasses. In this Web site we offer information to manage agricultural soil for optimum crop yields and at the same time maintaining or improving the capacity of soil to provide essential ecosystem functions.
“Our solution for safeguarding our soils on slopes where soil erosion by water is the hazard is (1) to increase rainwater-intake capacity of the soil by retaining crop litter at the surface, soil improvement, crop rotations, and strip cropping on the contour and (2) to lead away unabsorbed storm waters in channels of broad-base terraces into outlet channels and into natural drainage channels.”
Dr. W.C. Lowdermilk, 1943. Conquest of the Land through 7,000 years.
Crop Management Extension Group News
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Field Crop News 12:02
February 8, 2012Does the weather have you thinking about going out to the field to get some work done? This week’s issue provides several timely topics relevant to things you may be considering. But check out Paul Knight’s forecast first. Some thoughts on grain markets and a reminder about FSA program deadlines rounds out this edition. Don’t forget to check out some meetings that are coming up soon in Upcoming Events.
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Field Crop News 12:01
January 11, 2012The first edition of Field Crop News for 2012 is loaded with information for crop producers. You’ll find timely articles on grain marketing and new herbicides, rootworm resistance to Bt corn, results of the Soybean Yield Contest and details on the Manure Management Plan requirement for all livestock farms. In addition, you can find information about the many Penn State crop production programs slated for the next few months.
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Field Crop News 11:32
December 6, 2011Web links and brief overviews of Corn Silage Hybrid, Soybean Variety and Weed Control (by weeks end) trials kick-off this week’s edition. Reminders for protecting stored grain and some insight on grain markets follow. If your fields had a lot of down corn this fall, read some tips on controlling volunteer corn in 2012. Check out the items now added in Upcoming Events.
