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Chris Bennett

Writing from the level land of the Delta just outside of Clarksdale, Miss., Bennett has blogged for several years on agriculture, surrounded by cotton and plenty of cottonmouths.

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New Machinery
The Path to a Proper Spray Run
There is no perfect day to spray, plain and simple. Growers in most years are often backed in a corner, avoiding wind one day, only to face rain the next. Delays in spraying means the weeds grow larger and more difficult to control with herbicides.
September 19, 2022 11:17 PM
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Mikey Taylor kneels in deep cover planted after 100-plus bu. dicamba-tolerant soybeans, along with son Wells, 6, and daughter Merrie Leigh, 10.
Soybeans
Early Adopters Put Dicamba-Tolerant Soybeans to the Test
When Mikey Taylor broke the century mark with dicamba-tolerant soybeans, yielding over 100 bu. per acre, he did so in straight-laced fashion, in direct contrast to the dicamba debacle of 2016.
September 19, 2022 11:16 PM
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dicamba
Soybeans
Dicamba Questions Cloud 2017 Horizon
Illegal use of dicamba was a devil in 2016 and begs the question: With EPA’s labeling approvals on new dicamba formulations, how might the off-target scenario play out in 2017?
September 19, 2022 11:16 PM
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The smart sprayer searches for a particular crop and any plant that isn’t a match gets hit with a spot-on stream of herbicide.
Corn
Robotic Pigweed Killer Nears Farmland
A robotic pigweed killer may provide a 90% reduction in chemical use, maintenance of tractor speed at 6 mph, and the polar opposite of broadcast spraying.
September 19, 2022 11:16 PM
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KAN COT 1
Corn
Cotton Climbs in Kansas With 2,4-D Boost
Cotton isn’t king in Kansas, but it’s a fine prince for many Jayhawk growers, boosted by the arrival of new 2,4-D technology.
September 19, 2022 11:16 PM
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WEEDit allows chemical application solely to green matter, rather than spraying bare dirt, light of day or dark of night.
New Machinery
New Weed Tech Blasts Way to Real Savings?
If it’s green, it goes. A new weed technology uses a combination of infrared, sensors and nozzles to detect plants and aim a blast of herbicide at a spot the size of a nickel. WEEDit is an automatic plant detection technology that allows chemical application solely to green matter, rather than spraying bare dirt, all while the sprayer rolls at 15 mph, light of day or dark of night.
September 19, 2022 11:16 PM
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SMITH STONER AND VICTORIA DARDEN
Politics
EPA Fiddles as Flood Clock Rolls on Mississippi Delta’s Forgotten Nightmare
Welcome to a nightmare—the Yazoo Backwater Project—a bureaucratic taffy pull of dysfunctional government, politics, science, farming, and the backdoor dealings of a federal agency.
September 19, 2022 09:31 PM
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The Rat Buster
Crop Production
Meet the Rat Buster, YouTube Sensation and Grim Reaper of Farm Rodents
Jeff Pybus is farming’s invisible grim reaper, slaying rats in the dark as he shoots and films for an addicting, no-frills YouTube channel.
September 15, 2022 10:36 AM
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Shawn Conley
Soybeans
Born for Beans, Wisconsin’s Soybean Detective Hunts ROI
Shawn Conley is mad for soybeans: “It’s a crop with more moving parts than anyone except a farmer realizes, and there are so many nuances to work on that have yet to be explored.”
September 07, 2022 08:50 AM
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Weed Chopping Crew
Crop Production
Weed Choppers Back on Farm to Fight Seedbank War
In 2020, Pat Duncanson began a three-year march toward organic certification on 100 acres of corn and soybean ground. After a weed honeymoon, weeds rebounded in 2021, and Duncanson brought in a chopping crew.
September 07, 2022 08:49 AM
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