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UI Extension, Elmore County provides expert recommendations on agricultural topics such as crop production, enterprise budgets, variety selection, pest control, plant diseases, fertilization and irrigation management.

We also teach applied scientific methods to help restore soil with organic matter and improve production while conserving resources.

Large and small farms can be given crop consulting and on-farm field surveys using current technical information from the 妻友社区.

Agriculture

Forages — Alfalfa

• Alfalfa Hay Stick (PDF)
• Forage Harvest Management (PDF)
• Forage Pests Identification and Control (PDF)
• Mysterious Alfalfa Menace: Clover root curculio sneak-attacks Western fields (article from Hay & Forage Grower) (PDF)
• Hay Sampling Techniques (PDF)
• Hay Testing Terms (PDF)
• Interpreting feed reports (PDF)
• Irrigation Management in Alfalfa (PDF)
• Pasture Soil Fertilization (PDF)

Potatoes

• Composting in potato fields (PDF)
• Cost and Returns: Russet Potato (PDF)
• Cost and Returns: Shepody Potato (PDF)
• Potato Bruise (PDF)
• Potato Diseases (PDF)
• Potato Planter Performance (PDF)

Soil Improvements and Organic Matter

• 2015 Organic Acid presentation (PDF)
• 2015 Humic (PDF)
• Active Carbon as Soil Quality Indicator (PDF)
• Influence of Soil Amendments (PDF)
• Missing Links in Soil Health (PDF)
• Yields of Potato-Humic Application (PDF)

Small Grains & Other Crops

• Cost and returns: Feed Barley (PDF)
• Cost and returns: Spring Wheat (PDF)
• Cost and returns:  Winter Wheat (PDF)

Sugarbeets

• Nitrogen Mineralization in Sugarbeets (PDF)

Rangeland and Forest Wildfires

• UI Department of Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences
• U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management, Idaho