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Comparison Of 'Organic' And 'Conventional' Grains And Soybean Prices In The Northern Great Plains And Upper Midwest: 1995 Through 2003, Nicholas Streff, Thomas L. Dobbs Jun 2004

Comparison Of 'Organic' And 'Conventional' Grains And Soybean Prices In The Northern Great Plains And Upper Midwest: 1995 Through 2003, Nicholas Streff, Thomas L. Dobbs

Economics Pamphlet Series

Price premiums for organic crops drew the attention of an increasing number of farmers throughout the 1990s. Premiums contributed to the expansion of U.S. farmland managed under organic farming systems during that time period. Expansion of organic farming systems continued at least through 2001. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service's most recent data on organic farming systems, U.S. farmers and ranchers added almost one million acres of certified organic farmland between 1997 and 2001, an increase of 74 percent. Over that same time frame, certified organic cropland increased by 53 percent). The USDA implemented national …


A Dominant-Negative Fur Mutation In Bradyrhizobium Japonicum, Heather P. Benson, Kristin Levier, Mary Lou Guerinot Mar 2004

A Dominant-Negative Fur Mutation In Bradyrhizobium Japonicum, Heather P. Benson, Kristin Levier, Mary Lou Guerinot

Dartmouth Scholarship

In many bacteria, the ferric uptake regulator (Fur) protein plays a central role in the regulation of iron uptake genes. Because iron figures prominently in the agriculturally important symbiosis between soybean and its nitrogen-fixing endosymbiont Bradyrhizobium japonicum, we wanted to assess the role of Fur in the interaction. We identified a fur mutant by selecting for manganese resistance. Manganese interacts with the Fur protein and represses iron uptake genes. In the presence of high levels of manganese, bacteria with a wild-type copy of the furgene repress iron uptake systems and starve for iron, whereas fur mutants fail to …


Leaching And Sorption Of Nitrogen And Phosphorus By Crop Residue, J. D. Cermak, John E. Gilley, Bahman Eghball, Brian J. Wienhold Jan 2004

Leaching And Sorption Of Nitrogen And Phosphorus By Crop Residue, J. D. Cermak, John E. Gilley, Bahman Eghball, Brian J. Wienhold

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Overland flow from cropland areas often contains nutrients and residue materials can either contribute to runoff nutrient load through leaching or remove nutrients by sorption. Measurements were made of leaching and sorption of nitrogen and phosphorus from corn (Zea mays L.), soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) and winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cv. Pastiche) residues placed in solutions containing inorganic nutrients. Variables used were type of residue material, nutrient constituent, solution concentration, and residue / solution contact time. For a given residue material and nutrient constituent, four different solution concentrations were used (PO4 -P: 0 to …


Nf411 Seed Treatment Fungicides For Soybeans, Loren J. Giesler Jan 2004

Nf411 Seed Treatment Fungicides For Soybeans, Loren J. Giesler

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Fungi can cause seed to rot. This publication describes treatments.


Leaching And Sorption Of Nitrogen And Phosphorus By Crop Residue, J. D. Cermak, John E. Gilley, Bahman Eghball, B. J. Weinhold Jan 2004

Leaching And Sorption Of Nitrogen And Phosphorus By Crop Residue, J. D. Cermak, John E. Gilley, Bahman Eghball, B. J. Weinhold

Biological Systems Engineering: Papers and Publications

Overland flow from cropland areas often contains nutrients and residue materials can either contribute to runoff nutrient load through leaching or remove nutrients by sorption. Measurements were made of leaching and sorption of nitrogen and phosphorus from corn (Zea mays L.), soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) and winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cv. Pastiche) residues placed in solutions containing inorganic nutrients. Variables used were type of residue material, nutrient constituent, solution concentration, and residue / solution contact time. For a given residue material and nutrient constituent, four different solution concentrations were used (PO4 -P: 0 to …