Did you know that one pound of phosphorus from excessive fertilization can produce anywhere from 300 to 500 pounds of algae if that phosphorus reaches a lake or river? Reducing excessive ...

We’ve had an unusually warm winter and some unseasonably warm days, which have made many of us anxious to get out in our yards and gardens. You might be wondering what you should or should ...

Jeffrey Strock, a professor at the University of Minnesota Southwest Research and Outreach Center in Lamberton, Minnesota.

The unseasonal weather of the last year could bring both positive and negative impacts onto farmers this upcoming growing season. In a typical year, Minnesota sees lighter, fluffier snow from December ...

A warm and sunny weekend warmed up field temperatures but field conditions are still not warm enough to plant corn. Temperatures climbed into the 70s F yesterday in the US heartland, the warmest ...

The team worked at two sites in northern Minnesota on a total ... experimental setup also accounted for soil moisture, which decreased at warmer temperatures that cause faster water loss from ...

Northern Minnesota saw subzero temperatures and wind chills of 20 to 40 degrees below zero. The average first subzero temperature in the Twin Cities is on Dec. 16. MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9 ...