Agricultural scientists are sowing winter grain crops such as wheat into established summer-growing perennial grasses to try and boost soil quality and improve water use while maintaining crop yields ...

Nitrogen fertilizers play an essential role in ensuring global food security. However, the applied fertilizer-nitrogen, particularly that exceeding crop demand and soil N retention capacity, can ...

This article examines historic cropping patterns for northern, central, and southern Illinois pure grain farms from 2015–2024 (Table 1) and the percentage of acres planted to corn by region from ...