The goal of the North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory (NCARL) is to develop, document, and promote soil, crop, and pest management practices that are ecologically sustainable while maintaining producer profitability.
Will aphid-resistant soybean lines be useful for developing soybean cultivars able to withstand the varied array of virulent soybean aphid biotypes? We are conducting both field and laboratory trials to identify lines of domesticated and wild soybean that are resistant to soybean aphid. The evaluations are conducted in collaboration with land grant universities and private industry. Photo by Eric Beckendorf.
Western corn rootworm, adult beetle
The goal of the North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory (NCARL) is to develop, document, and promote soil, crop, and pest management practices that are ecologically sustainable while maintaining producer profitability.
Since its inception in 2011, the NCARL People's Garden has produced nearly 9000 pounds of fresh produce, all which were donated to non-profit food distribution programs in the Brookings community. The Garden is planted and maintained by NCARL and USDA-NRCS volunteers, as well as various community groups. The Garden demonstrates conservation practices such as cover cropping, inter-seeding, water conservation and mulch.
Sentinel prey cage in a corn plot for measuring predation of corn earworm eggs by ants and beetles.
Mission
To develop, document, and promote soil, crop, and pest management practices that are ecologically sustainable while maintaining producer profitability.