Resources

  • Extension Agriculture & Agribusiness in Michigan

    Published on August 4, 2025
    Michigan State University Extension educators work with farms of all sizes to positively impact individual farming operations. When individual operations do well, their success helps to fuel state and local economies.

  • Providing Timely & Relevant Information to Field Crop Producers & Agronomists

    Published on June 24, 2025
    This report highlights key educational programs conducted by the MSU Extension field crops educators in 2024.

  • Irrigation Scheduling Tools

    Published on June 2, 2025
    Irrigation scheduling provides information on the timing and amount of water to apply to meet crop needs.

  • Winter Bale Grazing in Michigan and the Great Lakes Region

    Published on May 13, 2025
    This bulletin provides practical guidance for implementing bale grazing as a winter-feeding strategy for beef cattle in Michigan, including equipment needs, layout tips, animal health considerations and soil fertility benefits.

  • Cover Crops for Michigan: Oilseed Radish

    Published on May 12, 2025
    Oilseed radish is a quick-growing cool-season annual brassica cover crop. The long taproot helps improve soil compaction and scavenges nitrogen from the soil.

  • Cover Crops for Michigan: Red Clover

    Published on May 12, 2025
    Red clover is a vigorous cool-season legume cover crop. When planted early enough in the season, red clover overwinters well and can produce nitrogen.

  • Cover Crops for Michigan: Sunflower

    Published on May 12, 2025
    Sunflower is a quick-growing warm season annual broadleaf cover crop with deep roots that improve soil compaction and scavenge soi nutrients. Sunflowers are great additions to multi-species cover crop mixes.

  • Cover Crops for Michigan: Cereal Rye

    Published on May 12, 2025
    Cereal rye dependably overwinters, even when seeded late into the fall and can offer erosion protection and weed suppression.

  • Rolling Kneeler Cart Design Plans

    Published on January 21, 2025
    Michigan AgrAbility sponsored a 2024 Mechanical Engineering capstone project for a client in need of a rolling kneeler cart, leading to the development and prototyping of a motorized cart that can move up to 0.34 feet per second.

  • Lessons From Long Term Research: Comparing No-Till to Conventional Tillage Over 30 years

    Published on January 9, 2025
    A summary of over 30 years of research by KBS LTER that measured yield, profitability, soil aggregation, carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas emissions and soil moisture in tilled and no-tilled fields.