Crop and Soil Sciences Publications in the Extension Resource Catalog  –  https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/catalog/department/40/

BMPs

• SoilFacts: Best Management Practices for Agricultural Nutrients

Lessons Learned from the NIFA, Conservation Effects Assessment Project

• Conservation Practice Implementation and Adoption to Protect Water Quality
• Effective Education to Promote Conservation Practice Adoption
• How Farmers and Ranchers Make Decisions on Conservation Practices
• Identifying Critical Source Areas
• Insights for Developing Successful Agricultural Watershed Projects
• Simulation Modeling for the Watershed-scale Assessment of Conservation Practices
• Water Quality Monitoring for the Assessment of Watershed Projects

Riparian Buffers

• Riparian Buffers and Controlled Drainage to Reduce Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution
• SoilFacts: Agricultural Riparian Buffers

Water Quality

• SoilFacts: Nitrogen Management and Water Quality
• SoilFacts: Soils and Water Quality.

Grazing Practices

• Grazing Practices: A Review of the Literature. North Carolina Agricultural Research Service, Technical Bulletin 325-W

• Effects of Wind-Induced Sodium Salts on Soils in Coastal Agricultural Fields
• Restoration and Management of Coastal Dune Vegetation. North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service Bulletin AG-591. N.C. State University, Raleigh N.C.
• Saltwater Intrusion in Agricultural Fields in Northeastern North Carolina and Potential Remediation Options.

Agriculture

• SoilFacts: Conservation Tillage Use in Peanut Production
• SoilFacts: Long-term Tillage Effects on Corn and Soybean Yield in the Piedmont
• SoilFacts: Managing Equipment Traffic to Limit Soil Compaction
• SoilFacts: Selecting a Strip-Till Rig
• SoilFacts: Soil Management Can Maximize Water Availability

Construction

• Replacing Asphalt: Recommendations for Straw Tackifiers
• SoilFacts: Chemical Treatment to Control Turbidity on Construction Sites
• SoilFacts: Chemical Turbidity Control in Pumped Construction Site Water
• SoilFacts: Fiber Check Dams and Polyacrylamide for Water Quality Improvement
• SoilFacts: Mulch Options for Erosion Control on Construction Sites
• SoilFacts: The North Carolina Erosion and Sedimentation Pollution Control Program 
• SoilFacts: Surface Outlets for Sediment Basins
• SoilFacts: Using Baffles to Improve Sediment Basins
• SoilFacts: Using Polyacrylamide (PAM) to Reduce Erosion on Construction Sites

• Managing the Impact of Floodwater Contaminants on Soil and Produce in Residential, Community, and School Vegetable Gardens.
• SoilFacts: Improving Lawn Care and Gardening.
• SoilFacts: Managing Lawns and Gardens to Protect Water Quality
• SoilFacts: Minimizing Risks of Soil Contamination in Urban Gardens
• SoilFacts: Modifying Soil for Plant Growth around Your Home
• SoilFacts: Soil Acidity and Liming: Basic Information for Farmers and Gardeners

Crop Production

• Alternative Product Demonstration and Research Guidelines for Extension Agents
• Applying Animal Waste to Cover Crops
• Biomass Production of Biofumigant Cover Crop ‘Caliente Mustard and Oilseed Radish
• SoilFacts: Nutrient Removal by Crops in North Carolina
• SoilFacts: Plant and Soil Analysis for Apple Trees
• SoilFacts: Soil and Plant Analysis for Christmas Trees
• SoilFacts: Soil Fertility Management for Irish Potato Production in Eastern North Carolina
• SoilFacts: Winter Annual Cover Crop

Soybeans

• Aluminum (Al) Toxicity in Soybean.
• Mid-Season Soybean Boron (B) Deficiency.
• Mid-Season Soybean Copper (Cu) Deficiency.
• Mid-Season Soybean Magnesium (Mg) Deficiency.
• Mid-Season Soybean Manganese (Mn) Deficiency.
• Mid-Season Soybean Molybdenum (Mo) Deficiency.
• Mid-Season Soybean Nitrogen (N) Deficiency.
• Mid-Season Soybean Phosphorus (P) Deficiency.
• Mid-Season Soybean Potassium (K) Deficiency.
• Mid-Season Soybean Sulfur (S) Deficiency.
• Mid-Season Soybean Zinc (Zn) Deficiency.

Economics

• SoilFacts: How Rising Fertilizer Prices Affect Optimum Nitrogen Rates.

Fertilizers

• North Carolina Realistic Yield Expectations and nitrogen fertilizer decision making.
• Selecting Nitrogen Rates in North Carolina: Recent Work on Corn and Wheat
• SoilFacts: Alternative Synthetic Nitrogen Fertilizer Products for Row Crop Production
• SoilFacts: Cold Injury and Boron Deficiency in Tobacco Seedlings
• SoilFacts: Starter Phosphorus Fertilizer and Additives in NC Soils: Use, Placement, and Plant Response
• SoilFacts: Sulfur Fertilization of North Carolina Crops

Liming

• Calculating the Rate of Acidifiers to Lower the pH of North Carolina Soils.
• SoilFacts: Soil Acidity and Liming: Basic Information for Farmers and Gardeners
• SoilFacts: Soil Acidity and Liming for Agricultural Soils
• SoilFacts: Soil pH Management for Fraser Fir Christmas Tree Production

Phosphorus Loss Assessment Tool – PLAT

• The North Carolina Phosphorus Loss Assessment Tool (PLAT)
• The North Carolina Phosphorus Loss Assessment Tool (PLAT): A Fact Sheet for Technical Specialists

River Basin Information

• Accounting Method for Tracking Relative Changes in Agricultural Phosphorus Loading to the Tar-Pamlico River
• Agricultural Nitrogen Accounting in Nutrient Impaired and Regulated River Basins: The Nitrogen Loss Estimation Worksheet Tool
• Delineating Agriculture in the High Rock Lake Watershed
• Delineating Agriculture in the Lake Jordan River Basin
• Delineating Agriculture in the Neuse River Basin
• Delineating Agriculture in the Tar-Pamlico River Basin

Soil Sampling

• SoilFacts: Careful Soil Sampling-The Key to Reliable Soil Test Information
• SoilFacts: Deep Soil Sampling for Nutrient Management
• Soil Health: What Does It Mean in North Carolina?
• Soil Sampling Strategies for Site-Specific Field Management

• SoilFacts: Investigate Before You Invest
• SoilFacts: Septic Systems and Their Maintenance
• SoilFacts: Septic System Owners Guide
• SoilFacts: Why do Septic Systems Fail?