Join us for Season 2 of our Akron Dryland Conversations!
We use a podcast-style to discuss current, practical issues among farmers, an expert panel, and other ag researchers and service professionals.
40335 Co Rd. GG (Hwy 34, 4 miles E of Akron, CO)
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Elizabeth Pruessner and Miho Yoshioka harvest corn.
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Kyle Mankin, Ali Hamm, Grace Miner, and Dave Poss finish up a day of field sampling at Akron, CO.
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USDA-ARS scientists Dan Manter and Heather Deel display a Winogradsky column in their laboratory, which shows how active soil microbes are when given the right food.
Mission
The mission of the Soils research of the Soil Management and Sugarbeet Research Unit (SMSRU) is to develop and evaluate new knowledge required to efficiently manage soil, fertilizer, and plant nutrients (emphasis on nitrogen) to achieve optimum crop yields, maximize farm profitability, maintain environmental quality, and sustain long-term productivity. For Sugarbeet, the mission is to utilize distinctive site environmental and disease-free characteristics and specifically developed team expertise to: (1) develop new knowledge and adapt biotechnologies to modify host-pathogen relations that affect disease resistance, pathogenesis, and epidemiology in sugarbeet and other plant species pertinent to sugarbeet cultivation; 2) discover new information and techniques to identify and produce genotypes exhibiting superior disease and stress tolerance and agronomic qualities; 3) provide new knowledge that improves production efficiency and biochemical processing characteristics.People
