This little black box could change how we study one of the world's biggest water quality issues. Scientists have created this new nitrate test kit. The dull black plastic of the device on Joshua ...

LITTLE BIT, AND WE’LL CHECK BACK IN WITH YOU SOON. RIGHT NOW, MUCH OF CENTRAL IOWA IS STILL UNDER A LAWN WATERING BAN. IT’S DUE TO HIGH NITRATE LEVELS IN OUR WATER SOURCES. YOU’RE TAKING A LOOK AT ALL ...

The end-of-season corn stalk nitrate test (CSNT) is a simple, inexpensive tool that can be used to assess the nitrogen (N) status of a corn crop at the end of the growing season. Data from studies ...

Revised Document Prepared by: A.L. Shober, K.L. Gartley, and J.T. Sims Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware Unlike other nutrients, such as potassium or phosphorus, the ...

University of Minnesota Extension Educator Brad Carlson said conditions in southern Minnesota this spring have been favorable ...

A worker in Des Moines prepares a water sample for nitrate testing. In Brown County, Minnesota farmers are concerned that such testing could create data to target them for additional regulations. When ...

A "lab-on-a-drone" collects a water sample near a tile outlet draining a farm field. Photo provided by Jonathan Claussen, Iowa State University mechanical engineering. Iowa State researchers have ...

Many Kansas cattle operations rely on some type of harvested feed to use in the winter months, and common among those sources are forage sorghum, millets, sorghum-sudangrass, and sudan. Forages in the ...

BOWMAN KCCI EIGHT NEWS. IOWA’S NEWS LEADER. INTERESTING TO SEE THE SCIENCE BEHIND IT ALL. NOW, SOME OF US HAVE BEEN WONDERING HOW ALL THE RAIN THIS WEEK COULD IMPACT THE SITUATION. THAT’S RIGHT. STORM ...

MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. About 23 ...

About 23 million U.S. households depend on private wells as their primary drinking water source. These homeowners are entirely responsible for ensuring that the water from their wells is safe for ...