High hay prices mean producers need to improve yields and reduce waste.

The webinar will help growers and agronomists analyze a crop’s winter health and offer tips for spring management.

At NDSU, the feasibility of using new sugar beet varieties, known as energy beets, for ethanol production is under study.

The question is whether this huge increase has capped a 10-year rise in land values, which has been the largest in the past 100 years.

Demonstration and yield trial plots are showing how energy beets can produce high yields in many different soil types and conditions.

Mud and melting snow creates a wet environment that can cause calf health problems.

Expect a yield loss of 1.5 percent per day beyond the optimum for wheat and 1.7 percent per day for barley.

Nearly 161,000 acres of cropland will be lost to the lake in 2013.

Manure spills pose a threat to aquatic ecosystems.

Even if producers don’t plant energy beets for a few years, they should be mindful of what herbicides they use on their crops this year.