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🌮 Corn after soy: New study quantifies rotation benefits and trade-offs
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Corn after soy: New study quantifies rotation benefits and trade-offs
While the majority of Midwestern farmers rotate corn and soybeans, commodity prices and corn yield advantages compel some to plant corn year after year. Although foundational research on the benefits of corn-soybean rotation goes back decades, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign scientists are working to address remaining holistic questions about crop yield, environmental impacts, and economic returns under various crop rotation scenarios.

🌽 To get that perfect ear of corn, weather has to cooperate. But climate change is making it dicier
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To get that perfect ear of corn, weather has to cooperate. But climate change is making it dicier
Robb Rynd and his brother grew up farming and wanted to do more of it outside their day jobs, so they went in together on what's now a little over 200 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat and sorghum. Last year was a good year, and Rynd said he enjoyed walking the fields with his kids to see how the corn was doing.

I like the wood board ceiling at the top of the stairwell near the elevator in the new Computer Science building
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