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Soil Organisms
What critters are in soil, and what do they do? Soil may seem like just something to hold up houses or a place for our plants to grow, but there’s a whole world of living critters down there working hard in their individual niches—each critter has an important job...
Thresholds in scouting
Why we don’t always treat when we see a problem When I scout a field, I look for anything out of the ordinary during the growing season. Each part of the season brings a new set of challenges. Early on, there are weeds to consider, emergence problems, and seedling...
Slo-Mo Soil
One of the world’s greatest resources moves at its own pace. Each day I drive to work, it’s a half hour drive down the same highway. Last year, Nebraska raised the speed limit on many of the highways, theoretically lowering the amount of time needed to spend on the...
Fake Meat: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
People can be picky and tricky. In this self-conscious age, there are just as many opinions on how to eat healthy as there are personalities. The list of diets people have clung to include low fat, low sodium, Mediterranean, vegetarian, vegan, no red meat, low starch,...
Water
When you see a picture of the earth, you see that a majority of it is blue. Three-quarters of the surface of the earth, in fact, is covered in water. That’s 118,500,000 square miles covered with the stuff. If there is so much of it on earth, why has the U.S....
Danger: Don’t Drink This or How stupid are we?
Responsibilities in wise chemical use I was minding my own business, chilling in my living room with the television on. I frankly don’t pay much attention to the “boob tube”—I’d rather be doing something like reading, sketching, walking, putting together a puzzle,...
Does your soil have a hangover?
An exploration into soil health The result of being a two-time graduate of the agronomy program of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, spending many hours as an undergraduate at the soil fertility research program working with Dr. Dan Walters, and slaving away at my...
That’s Just Not Natural
Tricky advertising and common instincts in plants I was walking down the produce aisle in my grocery store last week, grabbing the items from my shopping list derived from my planned menu for the upcoming few days. I had sent my husband on a mission for yellow onions,...
Beyond the Horizons—Eating Your Soil
Do you really understand what is under your feet… and what it took to get it there? When I was young, I didn’t ponder on the purpose of that dark stuff under the grass. It was something that got stuck under my fingernails and was fun to dig up and find bugs in. It...
Catch Words in Your Food
What do all those words mean on your food packages? Okay, show of hands now. When you go grocery shopping, how many of you look for “organic” or “natural” food? Do you think “cage free” and “free range” eggs are the same thing? Do you think brown eggs are better...
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