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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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Coleman and Salter
Crop Production
Farmer DIY: Weed-Specific Robotic Sprayers at Agriculture’s Door
Farmer DIY: Low-cost, weed-specific automated sprayers built on-farm are on the near-horizon for agriculture.
July 13, 2022 03:27 PM
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John Butler farmer safety
Used Machinery
Double Nightmare as Farmer Twice Miraculously Escapes Death
Two grim accidents, two sets of outrageously strange circumstances, and one stalwart farmer grateful for another chance at life. Here’s to the resilience of John Butler and his mouthful-of-rocks account.
July 06, 2022 08:06 AM
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Ward Henry and Bob Henry 1976
Used Machinery
The Duke of Hazard: How an Unbreakable Kansas Farmer Bore a Lifetime of Scars
All farmers suffer injuries, but the unbreakable Ward Henry was a breed apart: drill rollover, shooting, anaphylactic shock, amputation, and PTO mangling.
June 29, 2022 07:15 AM
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Doug and Maria Bichler
Used Machinery
Survival At All Costs: Rancher Escapes Hay Baler Tomb
Arm mangled inside a hay baler, Doug Bichler fought a gruesome battle for life, determined to escape the machine at all costs.
June 15, 2022 04:14 PM
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Tractorcade
Politics
A 5,000-Tractor Farmer Army: The Legacy of Tractorcade
How an epic convoy and legendary farmer army shook Washington, D.C.
June 10, 2022 09:12 AM
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Ron Gollobin, King of Cottonmouths
Farmland
Cottonmouth Farmer: The Insane Tale of a Buck-Wild Scheme to Corner the Snake Venom Market
Welcome to a tale too insane for fiction: a cottonmouth farmer seeking a snake venom crop for harvest.
June 10, 2022 08:38 AM
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CODY PARKER CHUCK EDWARDS NIC WILLIAMS
Corn
A Bootstrapper’s Tale: Born to Farm Behind Family, Friends, and Fortitude
Welcome to a rags to rows farm tale. Cody Parker is insistent: His success is directly linked to the kindness of other farmers.
May 25, 2022 08:26 AM
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Open Fields No Trespassing
Farmland
Unbounded: Government Claims Right of Access and Surveillance on All Private Land
Is private land a federal playground? The government claims a phenomenally powerful right—access and surveillance on every inch of farmland, hunting ground, and pasture in the U.S., without warrant or probable cause.
May 24, 2022 02:17 PM
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More people are diagnosed with skin cancer each year than all other cancers combined, and farmers are in the crosshairs of the most high-risk skin cancer category.
Health
Farmers Are In Skin Cancer’s Deadly Bullseye
Skin cancer is the single most common cancer in the United States and the rising number of incidents is staggering.
May 11, 2022 01:29 PM
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Golden Rice Saga
Crop Production
Hostage to GMO Hysteria: Golden Rice Saga Lingers as Malnourished Suffer
What if a partial solution to the plight of millions of dying children was a mere bowl of grain, but the sustaining food was pushed away in the name of science? Welcome to the saga of Golden Rice.
May 10, 2022 08:41 AM
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