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Climate analogs: A tool for guiding on-farm decisions Original
Katie Black and Marissa Schuh, Extension educators; Andrea Elvir Flores and Jason Hickman University of Minnesota Extension Aug. 14, 2026, 12:28 p.m. CT Minnesota farmers have already been responding to drought and warmer temperatures. So far, these conditions are manageable. However, the risk of more extreme growing conditions is increasing.
Pipestone County Star
By Pipestone County Star | on July 06, 2026 By Contributor | on July 06, 2026 When operating a small farm, growers aren’t just the producers; they are the pickers, the packers, the accountants, and the marketing strategists. By the time they harvest, clean and bundle their crops, the chore of selling them can feel like a breaking point. That’s why Minnesota farmers, like Erik Heimark, are experimenting with farmstands to market produce.
Minnesota: Got weeds in your beans? You’re not alone
Patch of volunteer corn in a soybean field. Volunteer corn, a weed in soybeans, competes for resources, adds foreign material to the harvested soybeans, and minimizes crop rotation benefits. Photo: Jared Goplen It’s been a memorable year for Minnesota soybean producers, but mostly for the wrong reasons. Dry conditions were problematic most of the year. Soybean emergence was affected by dry soil conditions in some fields.
Last Irrigations of Season Deserve More Management
By Steve Melvin, Aaron Nygren and Troy Ingram, Extension Educators Scheduling the last few irrigations of the season deserves more of your management time than earlier irrigations because one must not only focus on keeping the crop wet enough to produce optimal yields, but also on using up enough of the stored soil water to lower the level to 40% of plant available water in the top four feet.
Forage Hazards Following a Freeze Event
By Ben Beckman and Megan Taylor, Extension Educators Cover crops, soil health, extended grazing, and 13-way mixes are all buzzwords in the agronomic world today. Whether you are using cover crops for additional grazing or planting them with the intent to improve your soil, it’s important to make sure the mix will truly fit your needs and not cause issues later.
Minnesota: Nitrogen Fertilizer Application Restrictions Beginning Soon
Fall fertilizer application. Photo: University of Minnesota A little over a year ago, the Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner signed the Groundwater Protection Rule (GPR) with the goal of minimizing potential sources of nitrate pollution to Minnesota groundwater. One impact of this rule for farmers and agronomists is a restriction on the application of nitrogen fertilizer in the fall and on frozen soils in certain areas of the state starting September 1, 2020.
PANHANDLE PERSPECTIVES: One-year anniversary of tunnell collapse coming up
July 17 will mark the one-year anniversary of an event that many irrigators in western Nebraska will not forget – the Goshen / Gering-Ft Laramie Irrigation Districts Tunnel No. 2 collapsed, causing a breach in the main canal that dried up water deliveries for irrigators on the south side of the North Platte River under these two districts.
PANHANDLE PERSPECTIVES: One-year anniversary of tunnell collapse coming up
July 17 will mark the one-year anniversary of an event that many irrigators in western Nebraska will not forget – the Goshen / Gering-Ft Laramie Irrigation Districts Tunnel No. 2 collapsed, causing a breach in the main canal that dried up water deliveries for irrigators on the south side of the North Platte River under these two districts.
Minnesota: Preemergence herbicide injury on soybeans… Or maybe not?
Low temperature damage to emerged soybeans. Photo: Mike Staton, Michigan State University Many soybeans in southern Minnesota were ready to emerge when the recent cold weather brought concerns of both frost and herbicide injury. Most soybeans were still below ground and protected from freezing temperatures. However in some areas of the state, seedlings may show injury after extended contact with preemergence herbicides in the soil.
Indiana: First Comes Frost, Then Comes Blight
Dead soybeans as observed with those that southern blight has prematurely killed. Photo: Mississippi State University While corn planting progress is way ahead of the miserable 2019 planting season, Indiana’s corn crop has already experienced more than its fair share of misery. Most of April and the first half of May was cooler than normal across much of the state and, consequently, corn planted early April through early May has germinated, emerged, and developed very slowly.
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