Increased awareness of the impact of nutrient loading from agricultural activities has driven public and producer interest alike in...

Since 2016 Miner Institute has collected edge-of-field surface and tile drainage samples from corn silage fields in Northeastern NY that receive annual applications of dairy manure. The drainage is sampled year-round, including both base flow (shallow groundwater drained by field tiles) and during rain and snowmelt events.

In last month’s issue I introduced the concept of the whole-farm nutrient mass balance (NMB) for dairy farms as a nutrient management tool

Many of our current strategies for nutrient management on farms focus on how to manage nutrients only once they are a part of the farm.