Natalie Hoidal and Marissa Schuh With some areas in Northern Minnesota experiencing frost last night, it seems only natural to wrap up our updates for the year. We'll continue to post articles about educational events and relevant topics, but this will be the final weekly vegetable update. Read on for discussions about dry fall soils, topping plants, zombie grasshoppers and soil health equipment grants, and don’t forget to let us know what you thought of this season’s updates by filling out our survey. Dry soils and end of season field work Our 100 farms project team has been visiting farms and doing follow-up soil sampling this fall at 10 of the 100 farms included in the original project. The goal of this follow-up project is to better understand how phosphorus is moving across and through farm landscapes, and so it involves taking deeper than usual soil samples, including some 1 meter cores. For the most part, the soil on most farms has been extremely dry, to the extent that we