Our Work
The primary objective of this 5-year project is to generate reliable, regionally relevant production risk data in support of a reduced nitrogen input model for sugar beet growers.
The primary objective of this 5-year project is to generate reliable, regionally relevant production risk data in support of a reduced N input model for sugar beet growers.
One of our primary goals has been to revise and prepare robust fertility recommendations since recommendations for many crops were developed long ago or are non-existent.
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Growing calls and the need for sustainable agriculture have brought deserved attention to soil and to efforts towards improving or maintaining soil health.
Inefficient crop utilization of nutrients can reduce producers' profitability, and nutrient loss from agricultural land has adverse ecological impacts on environmental quality.
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Soil degradation, nutrient depletion, and declining crop productivity are significant in agriculture, particularly in a semi-arid region such as the Nebraska Panhandle.
Cover Crops for Dryland
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Started in 1912, the Knorr-Holden Plot near Scottsbluff is perhaps the world’s oldest irrigated continuous corn research plot. It has over 100-year-old manure and urea treatment plots under furrow-irrigated continuous maize.
Optimization of nitrogen (N) management in agriculture is key to addressing economic and environmental issues associated with N fertilization. Therefore, it is important to be able to detect variability in crop N status within a field.
