Upside Robotics builds autonomous solar-powered robots that can help farmers reduce their fertilizer use by 70%.

How you manage the mix in cornfields can determine whether the nitrogen feeds your crop or disappears into thin air.

The amount of nitrogen fertilizer needed to maximize the profitability of corn production in the Midwest has been increasing ...

Yield gains, denser stands, and improved nitrogen-use efficiency signal broad value across commodity, horticultural, ...

In this research plot at the MU Bradford Research Farm, soil has been fertilized with pig manure to study its effect on corn yields and soil health. Corn, one of the most common crops grown in the ...

Growing corn? That’s big business in Iowa. Growing leaders? That can be a lot harder on this land between two rivers that ...

While winter weather conditions are in full tilt in some parts of the country, Ken Ferrie and his team are actively working with farmers to finalize their agronomic plans for the 2023 cropping season.

Corn is a key source of biofuel. Fertilizing it releases a potent greenhouse gas into the air, so the federal government had approved research to grow the crop with less nitrogen. The funding is now ...

The amount of nitrogen fertilizer needed to maximize the profitability of corn production in the Midwest has been increasing by about 1.2% per year for the past three decades, a trend driven by higher ...