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• Wood Stoves - A Viable Home Heat Source?
• Trees and Farms Working Together: Agroforestry Comes of Age
• Corn Color Can Tell Farmers How Much Fertilizer to Apply
• Rainfall and Manure Application Timing Affect Organic Carbon Losses
• Certified Crop Adviser Program Developed for South Asia
• Ethanol Production Could Jeopardize Soil Productivity
• Simulating Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Product Transport
• Crop Models Help Increase Yield per Unit of Water Used
• Landfill Cover Soil Methane Oxidation Underestimated
• Taking Plant Biology from the Classroom to the Internet
• Representative Hinchey Receives Award for Support of Science
• Farmers, Foresters Can Play Key Role in Managing Carbon
• Can Organic Cropping Systems be as Profitable as Conventional Systems?
• Nitrate Stimulates Greenhouse Gas Production in Small Streams
• Transport Behavior of E. coli Varies Depending on Manure Source
• How Increased UV Exposure Impacts Plants
• Patience Pays Off with Methanol for Uranium Bioremediation
• No Consistent Advantage for Planting Soybean Early
• Will Large Amounts of Soil Carbon be Released to the Atmosphere if Grasslands are Converted to Energy Crops?
• Plant Soybean Early to Increase Yield
• Tracking Poultry Litter Phosphorus: Threat of Accumulation?
• Like Herding Cats: Collaborative Learning across Multiple Institutions
• Preventing Soil Erosion in Continuous Corn
• Low Level Herbicide Use Can Damage Potato Reproduction
• Describing Soils: Calibration Tool for Teaching Soil Rupture Resistance
• Models Simulate Nitrate Dynamics in Garonne, Southwest France
• Improving Soybean Digestibility
• Oil Spray Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Pig Finishing Barns
• Managing Carbon Loss
• Urban Trees Enhance Water Infiltration
• Tillage, Rotation Impacts Peanut Crops
• Where Have All the Students Gone?
• Biosolids Microbes Pose Manageable Risk to Workers
• Pesticide Concentrations Decreasing
• Estimate Soil Texture-by-Feel
• Pickleweed Tolerates Irrigation with Seawater and High Levels of Boron
• Experiment Demonstrates 110 Years of Sustainable Agriculture
• Meeting the Challenges of Teaching the New Agriculture
• Nitrate Concentrations of Ground Water Increasing in Many Areas of the United States
• Two Congressmen Honored with USGS Coalition Leadership Award
• How Are Herbicides Discovered?
• A Little Nitrogen Can Go a Long Way
• Biological Selenium Removal: The Solution to Pollution?
• Can Biofuels be Sustainable?
• A Simple Twist of Evolution
• Bacterial Persistence in Streams
• No-Tillage Plus
• Teaching in a Disruptive Classroom
• Dioxin Risk in Soil and Plant Tissues after Long-Term Biosolids Application
• Crop Management: How Small Do We Go?
• Statistical Relationships Simplified
• Pesticides Persist in Ground Water
• Where Is Your Soil Water? Crop Yield Has the Answer
• Positive Perceptions from a Young American Farmer
• Holistic Study Approach Expands Understanding of Agricultural Chemicals in the Environment
• Organic Corn: Increasing Rotation Complexity Increases Yields
• Biotechnology vs. Sustainability: What Do Students Think?
• Fecal Microorganisms Inhabit Sandy Beaches of Florida
• Keeping Yields, Profits, and Water Quality High
• Officers Elected to Fill Scientific Society Boards
• The Sweet World of Soil Microbiology
• Global Food Crisis: Experts Available to Comment
• Herbicide-Tolerant Crops Can Improve Water Quality
• Inaugural Kirkham Gold Medal Presented to Expert on Soil Physics
• Self Seeding: An Innovative Management System
• Food Biotechnology: Real World Challenges
• Outstanding Undergraduates Recognized in Agronomy, Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences
• Fueling Ethanol Production While Protecting Water Quality
• Are Organic Crops as Productive as Conventional?
• Get Ready for a Learning Experience: Your Final Graduate School Year
• Global Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rise Affects Invasive Plants
• The Organic Farming Effect
• Is Your Drinking Water Safe?
• Management Practices Affect Soil Carbon Dioxide Emission and Carbon Storage
• Are Transgenic Cotton Cultivars More Profitable?
• Teach Students To Use Online Literature
• Detecting Synthetic Fertilizers: Is It Organic or Not?
• Scientists to Gather in Houston in October to Celebrate International Year of Planet Earth
• After 10,000 Years of Agriculture, Whither Agronomy?
• The Value of Memoir Writing
• Water Quality Impacts from Intensive Forest Practices
• Feedlots a Source of Atmospheric Ammonia
• Hawaiian Case Study Challenges Students
• Manure Management Reduces Levels of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes
• Weather and Water Conditions Reveal E. coli Concentrations at Indiana Beaches

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