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item Data from Soil Response to Perennial Herbaceous Biofeedstocks under Rainfed Conditions in the Northern Great Plains, USA (Mar 2025)
item Data from Dryland Cropping System Studies at the Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory, 2006-2009 (Mar 2025)
item A comparative study of deep reinforcement learning for crop 1 production management (Mar 2025)
item Data from Grazing Management Studies at the Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory, 2003-2006 (Feb 2025)
item Metatranscriptomic and metagenomic analyses of cotton aphids (Aphis gossypii) collected from cotton fields in Alabama, USA (Feb 2025)
item Yield variation, plasticity, adaptation, and performance ranking of winter wheat varieties across the environmental gradient of the U.S. Pacific Northwest (Feb 2025)
item Nutrient runoff from agricultural lands in North American ecoregions (Feb 2025)
item Sweet potato yield prediction using machine learning based on multispectral images acquired from a small unmanned aerial vehicle (Feb 2025)
item Integrating reinforcement learning and large language models for crop production process management optimization and control through a new knowledge-based deep learning paradigm (Feb 2025)
item Effect of stocking period on pasture species composition, forage production, and animal performance (Jan 2025)
item Sustainable intensification of livestock systems using forage legumes in the anthropocene (Jan 2025)
item Comparative economic analysis between bioenergy and forage types of switchgrass for sustainable biofuel feedstock production: A DEA and cost-benefit analysis approach (Jan 2025)
item Applications of Raspberry Pi for Precision Agriculture — A Systematic Review (Jan 2025)
item Interseeding cover crop into an irrigated sandy loam for 6 years: Soil, crop, and economic response (Jan 2025)
item Peanut yield and grade response to multiple simulated rainfall events following inverting (Jan 2025)
item Assessment of diatomaceous earth use potential in Louisiana sugarcane (Jan 2025)
item Decoding the viral community in soybean thrips (Neohydatothrips variabilis) through RNA-Seq suggests presence of insect, plant and fungal viruses in Auburn, AL, 2023 (Jan 2025)
item Low carryover risk of late-season soybean herbicides to newly planted sugarcane (Jan 2025)
item Cotton stalk management and a cover crop produce minimal effects on cotton leafroll dwarf virus (Dec 2024)
item Incorporating volumetric water content (capacitance) sensors as an automated data entry solution for Irrigator Pro (Dec 2024)
item Organic cropping systems enhance soil health indicators in a Mollisol of the US Corn Belt (Dec 2024)
item Inclusion of green manures enhances crop biomass, nutrient uptake, soil phosphorus dynamics and bioavailability (Dec 2024)
item Data and code from: Cotton stalk management and a cover crop produce minimal effects on cotton leafroll dwarf virus (Dec 2024)
item As grain mineral densities have declined over time, have densities converged across wheat classes? Insights from the U.S. Pacific Northwest and worldwide benchmarks (Dec 2024)
item Opportunities and outcomes of using manure and biosolid amendments on USA drylands (Dec 2024)
item Nutritive value and forage accumulation of a black oat germplasm in northeast US (Dec 2024)
item What do we know about heat stress on grazed dairy heifers? (Dec 2024)
item Restoration of global rangelands for people, nature and human well-being and development (Dec 2024)
item Soil bacterial and fungal microbiomes under cotton production are more sensitive to tillage and cover crops than irrigation level in a semi-arid sandy soil (Dec 2024)
item Genomic diversity of U.S. katahdin hair sheep (Nov 2024)
item Greenhouse gas emissions from tillage practices and crop phases in a sugarbeet-based crop rotation. (Nov 2024)
item Tillage effects on estimated parameters of soil-water retention curves and pore-size distribution in a clay loam. (Nov 2024)
item Red harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) do not distinguish between sorghum head mold symptomatic and asymptomatic seeds (Nov 2024)
item Effects of potassium fertilizer on sugarcane yields and plant and soil potassium levels in Louisiana (Nov 2024)
item The Long-Term Agroecosystem Research cropland common experiment at Northern Plains (Nov 2024)
item The LTAR Common Experiment: Facilitating improved agricultural sustainability through coordinated cross-site research (Nov 2024)
item Using knowledge of land potential and ecological dynamics to guide intervention strategies (Nov 2024)
item Transcriptomic analysis of salivary glands in the cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii (Nov 2024)
item Comparing soil health and fertility indicators in established long-term organic and conventional cropping systems in Eastern Nebraska (Nov 2024)
item Use of kernza intermediate wheatgrass straw on beef cows and dairy heifer diets (Nov 2024)
item Do increased stocking periods affect animal performance and weed population in Southern Wisconsin? (Nov 2024)
item Facilitating a farmer-led outreach event focused on improving farm resilience with pollinator habitat (Nov 2024)
item The effects of floral resource phenology and farm management practices on pollinators and pollination services on row crop farms (Nov 2024)
item Interrelationships of plant, soil, and water quality C and N components in an organic vs a conventional system in a mollisol of the U.S. Midwest (Nov 2024)
item The LTAR Cropland Common Experiment at Upper Mississippi River Basin-Ames (Oct 2024)
item Understanding the mineral nutrient value of wheat residue (Oct 2024)
item Organic matter is no small matter (Oct 2024)
item Selection environment impacts genetic gains for persistence in three temperate perennial forage grasses (Oct 2024)
item Reduction in nitrogen fertilization rate sustains malt barley yield and quality in the malt barley-pea rotation. (Oct 2024)
item Drought alters the physiological quality of runner-type peanut seeds during seed formation (Oct 2024)
item Nutrition as a sustainable tool for increasing small ruminant resistance and resilience to gastrointestinal nematodes (Oct 2024)
item Current and future trends in managing internal parasites in forage based livestock (Oct 2024)
item Data from: Yield and profit comparison of diversified versus conventional crop rotation systems in South Dakota (Oct 2024)
item The LTAR grazing land common experiment at Platte River High Plains Aquifer (Oct 2024)
item Remote detection of water stress in cotton using a center pivot irrigation system-mounted sensor package (Oct 2024)
item Soil dissipation and efficacy on itchgrass of soil-applied residual herbicides pendimethalin and clomazone in Louisiana sugarcane (Sep 2024)
item Carbon isotopic composition reflects intrinsic water use efficiency and not its component traits in sugarcane (Sep 2024)
item Oxidation of small phenolics compound by Mn(IV) (Sep 2024)
item Yield and profit comparison of diversified versus conventional crop rotation systems in South Dakota (Sep 2024)
item Data from: Soil Responses to Inclusion of Corn, Soybean, and Cover Crops under Rainfed Conditions in the Northern Great Plains (Sep 2024)
item Vegetation masking of remote sensing data aids machine learning for soil fertility prediction (Sep 2024)
item Drought and heat stress induce differential physiological and agronomic trait responses in cotton (Sep 2024)
item Genome-wide association study of fiber quality traits in US upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) (Sep 2024)
item Data from: Understanding the effects of grazing and prescribed fire on hydrology of Kentucky bluegrass–dominated rangelands in the northern Great Plains (Aug 2024)
item How does no-till affect soil-profile distribution of roots? (Aug 2024)
item Data from: Tillage and cropping effects on soil quality indicators in the northern Great Plains (Aug 2024)
item Contribution of eroding streambanks to phosphorus export from Iowa, USA (Aug 2024)
item Uptake and economic value of macro- and micro-nutrient minerals in wheat residue (Aug 2024)
item Stockpiled forages for grazing dairy heifers (Aug 2024)
item Data from: Near-Surface Soil Property Responses to Forage Production in a Semiarid Region (Aug 2024)
item USDA LTAR Common Experiment measurement: Concentration of phosphorus, potassium, and sulfur in aboveground biomass (Aug 2024)
item Evidence of higher evapotranspiration in croplands than in forestlands in four Mississippi watersheds over the past decade (Aug 2024)
item The LTAR Grazing Land Common Experiment at Northern Plains (Aug 2024)
item Unveiling errors in soil microbial community sequencing: A case for reference soils and improved diagnostics for nanopore sequencing (Jul 2024)
item Soil stability is a sticky situation (Jul 2024)
item Soil aggregate stability and erosion resistance in response to integration of cover crops and poultry litter in a no-till rainfed soybean cropping system (Jul 2024)
item Red harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) do not distinguish between sorghum head mold symptomatic and asymptomatic seeds (Jul 2024)
item Red harvester ant nests impact soil compaction but not temperature in peri-urban habitats of the Lower Rio Grande Valley (Jul 2024)
item Empirical comparison of genomic selection to phenotypic selection for biomass yield of switchgrass (Jul 2024)
item Effect of cotton population density on lint yield and fiber quality (Jul 2024)
item Creating a bio-product based circular economy from Louisiana sugarcane by-products (Jul 2024)
item Building a cereal rye breeding program for cover crop use (Jul 2024)
item Mapping topsoil behavior to compation at national scale from an analysis of field observations (Jul 2024)
item Evaluation of nodule traits in USDA guar genotype accessions (Jul 2024)
item Scheduling irrigation events in corn using three soil water potential strategies (Jul 2024)
item Assessing the contribution of land and water management approaches to sustainable land management and achieving land degradation neutrality (Jun 2024)
item United States hairy vetch (Vicia villosa) germplasm contains two subpopulations (Jun 2024)
item Managing alfalfa intercropping with intermediate wheatgrass: Towards perennial grain-forage systems (Jun 2024)
item Evaluating USDA guar [Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.] germplasm for seed protein content (Jun 2024)
item Revealing topsoil behavior to compaction from mining field observations (Jun 2024)
item Characterization of the proteins encoded by a recently emerged cotton-infecting Polerovirus (Jun 2024)
item A global atlas of soil viruses reveals unexplored biodiversity and potential biogeochemical impacts (Jun 2024)
item Thermal time and precipitation dictate cereal rye shoot biomass production (Jun 2024)
item Data from: Crop sequence and nitrogen fertilization effects on soil properties in the Western corn belt (Jun 2024)
item Can unmanned aerial vehicle images be used to estimate forage production parameters in agroforestry systems in the Caatinga? (Jun 2024)
item Introduction to the XXV International Grassland Congress virtual special section (Jun 2024)
item Data from: Short-term soil responses to late-seeded cover crops in a semi-arid environment (May 2024)
item Genome resources for three modern cotton lines guide future breeding efforts (May 2024)
item Impact of selected adjuvants combined with Vantacor against the sugarcane borer, 2023 (May 2024)
item Yeast two-hybrid screening for cotton leafroll dwarf virus-Aphis gossypii interactions (May 2024)
item Sulfur availability minimizes nitrate leaching losses in vulnerable agricultural soils (May 2024)
item Red harvester ant nests impact soil compaction but not temperature in peri-urban habitats of the Lower Rio Grande Valley (May 2024)
item Yield has minimal effect on whole-grain mineral density of modern soft wheat compared to production environment, genotype, and test weight (May 2024)
item Plant virus transmission during seed development and implications to plant defense system (May 2024)
item The changing nature of soil (May 2024)
item Tomato domestication rather than subsequent breeding events reduces microbial associations related to phosphorus recovery (Apr 2024)
item Long-Term soil change in the U.S. Great Plains: An evaluation of the Haas soil archive (Apr 2024)
item Cover crops and poultry litter impact on soil structural stability in dryland soil of Southeastern United States (Apr 2024)
item Data from: ‘Water quality of an integrated crop–livestock system in the northern Great Plains’ (Apr 2024)
item Predictive Emergence Model of Russian Thistle (Salsola tragus) (Apr 2024)
item Dryland soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in response to cropping system and nitrogen fertilization (Apr 2024)
item Crop rotational diversity can mitigate climate-induced grain yield losses (Mar 2024)
item Application of UAV multispectral imaging to monitor soybean growth with yield prediction through machine learning (Mar 2024)
item Global change impacts on mineral nutritional quality of cereal grains: Coordinated datasets and analyses to advance a systems-based understanding (Mar 2024)
item Data from: ‘Soil CO2 Efflux Dynamics in an Integrated Crop-Livestock System’ (Mar 2024)
item Gas exchange and time to reach maximum rate of photosynthetic rate and their relationship with whole-plant traits in sugarcane in water abundant Louisiana, USA (Mar 2024)
item Soil, crop, and weed communities as affected by soil erosion and topsoil replacement in a Mollisol landform (a six-year soil-landscape rehabilitation study) (Mar 2024)
item Phenotypic variability in the U.S. upland cotton core set for root traits and water use efficiency at the late reproductive stage (Mar 2024)
item Overview of the USDA-ARS Healthy Soils -Healthy Food -Healthy People Initative (Mar 2024)
item Distribution and Frequency of Little Cherry Virus 2 Genotypes in both Production and Ornamental Fruit Trees in the Pacific Northwest (Mar 2024)
item Data from: ‘Grazing Effects on Nitrous Oxide Flux in an Integrated Crop-Livestock System’ (Mar 2024)
item Is your pasture old enough? (Mar 2024)
item A review of the development and implementation of the critical source area concept: A reflection of Andrew Sharpley’s role in improving water quality (Feb 2024)
item Data from ‘Field measurement of wind erosion flux and soil erodibility factors as affected by tillage and seasonal drought’ (Feb 2024)
item Simple roots make life in soil complex (Feb 2024)
item Bottom line ag summit (Feb 2024)
item Data from: ‘Integrated crop-livestock effects on soil carbon and nitrogen in a semiarid region’ (Feb 2024)
item Balancing agriculture and environment: Andrew Sharpley’s nutrient, soil and water management legacy (Feb 2024)
item The importance of consensus science to managing phosphorus in the environment: SERA-17 and the legacy of Andrew Sharpley (Feb 2024)
item Harnessing phosphorous (P) fertilizer-insensitive bacteria to enhance rhizosphere P bioavailability in legumes (Feb 2024)
item Data from ‘Response of soil carbon and nitrogen to transplanted alfalfa in North Dakota rangeland' (Feb 2024)
item Winter reflections on the living soil (Jan 2024)
item Synergism of sulfur availability and agronomic nitrogen use efficiency (Jan 2024)
item Enhanced metabolic detoxification is associated with fluroxypyr resistance in Bassia scoparia (Jan 2024)
item Characterization of powdery mildew fungi affecting hemp in the Pacific Northwest (Jan 2024)
item Simulating long-term soil carbon storage, greenhouse gas balance, and crop yields in semi-arid cropping systems using DayCent model (Jan 2024)
item Healthy soil, healthy food, healthy people initative - an update (Jan 2024)
item First report of Spiroplasma citri associated with disease symptoms in field-grown hemp (Cannabis sativa) in the Pacific Northwest (Jan 2024)
item Wheat rhizosphere-derived bacteria protect soybean roots from Fusarium graminearum infection (Dec 2023)
item A short history of the phosphorus index and Andrew Sharpley’s contributions from inception through development and implementation (Dec 2023)
item Wheat rhizosphere-derived bacteria protect soybean from soilborne diseases (Dec 2023)
item Differential patterns of taxonomic and functional diversity for two groups of canopy arthropods across spatial scales (Nov 2023)
item Soil bacteriome resilience and reduced nitrogen toxicity in tomato by controlled release nitrogen fertilizer compared to urea (Nov 2023)
item Exploring 65 years of progress in cotton nutrient uptake, efficiency and partitioning in the USA (Nov 2023)
item Development of high-yielding upland cotton genotypes with reduced regrowth after defoliation using a combination of molecular and conventional approaches (Nov 2023)
item Grappling with the success and trade-offs of global nutrient redistribution (Nov 2023)
item How does winter cover crop harvest impact soils? (Nov 2023)
item Lignocellulosic composition not associated with stem borer resistance in select Louisiana sugarcane cultivars (Nov 2023)
item Winter camelina as an alternative cover crop for central Iowa corn-soybean systems (Nov 2023)
item Low rates of sugarcane bagasse-derived biochar have limited effects on soil properties and sugarcane crop yield (Oct 2023)
item Modeling denitrification: Can we report what we don’t know? (Oct 2023)
item Network analysis of nematodes with soil microbes on cool-season golf courses (Oct 2023)
item Shifts of the soil microbiome composition induced by plant-plant interactions under increasing cover crop densities and diversities (Oct 2023)
item Alterations in growth habit to channel end-of-season perennial reserves towards increased yield and reduced regrowth after defoliation in upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) (Sep 2023)
item Counterfactual scenarios reveal historical impact of cropland management on soil organic carbon stocks in the United States (Sep 2023)
item Physiological and transcriptomic analysis of Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni infection in Prunus persica (Aug 2023)
item Reviewing the current understanding of replant syndrome in orchards from a soil microbiome perspective (Aug 2023)
item A newly isolated cotton-infecting Polerovirus with cryptic pathogenicity encodes a weak suppressor of RNA silencing (Jul 2023)
item Key soil properties and their relationships with crop yields as affected by soil-landscape rehabilitation (Jul 2023)
item Soil microorganisms respond distinctively to adaptive multi-paddock and conventional grazing in the southeastern United States (Jul 2023)
item Community structure and abundance of ACC deaminase containing bacteria in soils with 16S-PICRUSt2 inference or direct acdS gene sequencing (Jun 2023)
item Long-term nitrogen balance of an irrigated no-till soil-corn system (Jun 2023)
item Comparison of Oxford Nanopore Technologies and Illumina MiSeq sequencing with mock communities and agricultural soil (Jun 2023)
item Disease-induced assemblage of the rhizosphere fungal community in successive plantings of wheat (Jun 2023)
item Winter rye cover crop seeding rate and termination timing effects on cover crop biomass and quality (Jun 2023)
item A microbiological approach to alleviate soil replant syndrome in peaches (May 2023)
item Discrimination of weeds from sugarcane in Louisiana using hyperspectral leaf reflectance data and pigment analysis (May 2023)
item Impact of insecticide, rate, and timing combinations against sugarcane borer, 2019-2020 (May 2023)
item Adapting perennial grain and oilseed crops for climate resiliency (May 2023)
item Non-target potential of neonicotinoid and fungicide seed cane treatments on Solenopsis invicta (May 2023)
item State spaces for agriculture: a meta-systematic design automation framework (Apr 2023)
item Nitrogen management can increase potato yields and food security for climate change adaptation in the Andean region (Apr 2023)
item Tree canopy cover and elevation affect the distribution of red harvester ant nests in a peri-urban setting (Apr 2023)
item Increasing crop rotational diversity can enhance cereal yields (Mar 2023)
item Root traits of perennial C4 grasses contribute to cultivar variations in soil chemistry and species patterns in particulate and mineral-associated carbon pool formation (Feb 2023)
item Monolith soil core sampling to develop nitrate testing protocol for manure injection (Feb 2023)
item Smallholder farms have and can store more carbon than previously estimated (Dec 2022)
item CaRPE: the Carbon Reduction Potential Evaluation tool for building climate mitigation scenarios on US agricultural lands (Dec 2022)
item Updates to the MANAGE database to facilitate regional analyses of nutrient runoff (Nov 2022)
item Draft genome sequence of a Washington isolate of Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni (Nov 2022)
item Evaluating the impacts of alternative grazing management practices on soil carbon sequestration and soil health indicators (Oct 2022)
item State spaces for agriculture: a meta-systematic design automation framework (Oct 2022)
item Characterization of resistance to the Mexican rice borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) among Louisiana sugarcane cultivars (Sep 2022)
item Short-term corn yield response associated with nitrogen dynamics from fall-seeded cover crops under no-till dryland conditions (Sep 2022)
item Does agroecosystem management mitigate historic climate impacts on dryland winter wheat yields? (Sep 2022)
item Synthetic microbial consortia derived from rhizosphere soil protect wheat against a soilborne fungal pathogen (Aug 2022)
item Evaluation of models for utilization in genomic prediction in the Louisiana sugarcane breeding program (Aug 2022)
item Harnessing soil microbiomes for camelina growth in low nitrogen inputs (Aug 2022)
item Envisioning the manureshed: Towards comprehensive integration of modern crop and animal production (Jun 2022)
item First evaluation of the ‘WieSEL’ integrated plot combine grain yield system (Jun 2022)
item Grazing management modifies the biomass and activities of soil microorganisms in grasslands (Jun 2022)
item Honey bee genetic stock determines DWV symptom severity but not viral load or dissemination following pupal exposure (Jun 2022)
item Colony-level viral load influences collective foraging in honey bees (May 2022)
item Red harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus F. Smith; Hymenoptera: Formicidae) preference for cover crop seeds in South Texas (Apr 2022)
item Effects of cotton stalk management and cover crop use on soil properties and CLRDV incidence (Apr 2022)
item The effects of cobalt on sugarcane growth and development in plant cane and two ratoon crops (Mar 2022)
item Registration of ‘L 12-201’ sugarcane (Feb 2022)
item Tropical milkweed herbivore and predator dynamics in suburban South Texas (Dec 2021)
item Crop production response to conservation practices and sustainable intensification in a corn-soybean cropping system (Nov 2021)
item Host genotype and tissue type determine DWV infection intensity (Nov 2021)
item Resistance to the sugarcane borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) in Louisiana sugarcane cultivars (Nov 2021)
item Notice of release of sugarcane variety HoCP 14-885 (May 2021)
item Evaluation of sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis, resistance among commercial and experimental cultivars in the Louisiana sugarcane cultivar development program (Apr 2021)
item Kentucky soybean farmers’ supportiveness of two integrated pest and pollinator management tactics (Mar 2021)
item Effect of variety and Trinexapac-ethyl application on the yield of billet and whole-stalk planted sugarcane in Louisiana (Dec 2020)
item The buzz about bee campuses: Student thoughts regarding pollinator conservation (Dec 2020)
item Population trends of the sugarcane borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) in Louisiana sugarcane (Oct 2020)