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Walk-Ins Invited to Attend Research Updates

Registration is now closed, but walk-ins are welcome to attend the remaining 2025 Research Update sessions. Keep up with new crop production challenges with research-based knowledge and field-tested solutions that will help you in the field in 2025.

The remaining Research Update session dates and locations include:

  • January 14, Willmar
  • January 15, Lamberton 
  • January 16, Crookston 

Program details including schedule, presentation titles and speakers for each session can be found on the  Research Updates website.

As always, we have applied for Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for Certified Crop Advisors.

Registration

The registration fee at the door is $70. On-site registration begins one hour before the start time at each location.

Source : umn.edu

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Most of us spend our time managing what we can see above ground—plant height, leaf color, stand counts, and yield potential. But the deeper you dig into agronomy, the more you realize that some of the most important processes driving crop performance are happening just millimeters below the surface.

In this episode of Field Talk Friday, Dr. John Murphy continues the soil biology series by diving into one of the most fascinating topics in modern agronomy: root exudates and the role they play in shaping the microbial world around plant roots.

Roots are not passive structures simply pulling nutrients out of the soil. They are active participants in the underground ecosystem. Plants constantly release compounds into the soil—sugars, amino acids, organic acids, and other molecules—that act as both energy sources and signals for soil microbes.