University of Delaware

End-of-Season Corn Stalk Nitrate Testing to Optimize Nitrogen Management

The end-of-season corn stalk nitrate test (CSNT) is a simple, inexpensive tool that can be used to assess the nitrogen (N) status of a corn crop at the end of the growing season. Data from studies ...
Science Daily

Making a better nitrate test kit

This little black box could change how we study one of the world's biggest water quality issues. Scientists have created this new nitrate test kit. The dull black plastic of the device on Joshua ...
AG Week

University of Minnesota research refines nitrogen test to boost corn yields

New University of Minnesota research, recently published in the Soil Science Society of America Journal, significantly improves a tool that farmers can use to guide nitrogen application decisions. Too ...
The Journal

Test forages to prevent nitrate and prussic acid poisoning

Many Kansas cattle operations rely on some type of harvested feed to use in the winter months, and common among those sources are forage sorghum, millets, sorghum-sudangrass, and sudan. Forages in the ...
Penn Live

Millions of people across US use well water, but very few test it often enough to make sure it’s safe | Opinion

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Author: Gabriel Lade, Macalester College About 23 million U.S. households depend on ...
Nature

An evaluation of semi-quantitative test strips for the measurement of nitrate in drinking water in epidemiologic studies

Exposure to nitrate or nitrite in drinking water is associated with methemoglobinemia in infants, and possibly cancer (Grosse et al., 2006) and selected reproductive and developmental outcomes ...
OPB

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek lays out new nitrate goals amid criticism

Two months after her return visit to the Lower Umatilla Basin, Gov. Tina Kotek has released goals on how the state can better help residents hurt by the ongoing nitrates crisis. Kotek detailed her new ...
Santa Maria Sun

Los Olivos CSD considers testing groundwater wells once a year

A local agency’s decision to postpone one of Los Olivos’ regularly scheduled groundwater well tests—used to measure nitrate concentration levels—opened the floodgates to a different kind of monitoring ...
University of Delaware

Nitrogen Management for Corn in Delaware: The Pre-Sidedress Nitrate Test

Revised Document Prepared by: A.L. Shober, K.L. Gartley, and J.T. Sims Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware Unlike other nutrients, such as potassium or phosphorus, the ...
The Conversation

Millions of people across the US use well water, but very few test it often enough to make sure it’s safe

Gabriel Lade received funding from the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct this research.
MinnPost

Millions in the US use well water, but few test it often enough to make sure it’s safe

About 23 million U.S. households depend on private wells as their primary drinking water source. These homeowners are entirely responsible for ensuring that the water from their wells is safe for ...