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  • Farming With Purpose: Smart Fertility On Dryland Acres

    Dryland corn farming, where crops depend entirely on rainfall rather than irrigation water, has always been an exercise in judgment. Without the predictability of irrigation, farmers make real-time decisions based on weather, soil conditions and risk. Once the season begins, many of those choices can’t be reversed, making timing and precision [...]

  • “The key to soil health is to strike the right balance between all of these components.” Soil health is defined as the continued capacity of a soil to function as a vital living [...]

  • U.S. agricultural exports have been larger than U.S. agricultural imports since 1960, generating a surplus in U.S. agricultural trade. This surplus helps counter the persistent deficit in non-agricultural U.S. merchandise trade. At the same [...]