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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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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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Chris Bennett
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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Jon Stevens Input Savings
Crop Production
Minnesota Farmer’s Input Trials Paying Big Dividends in 2022
As input prices climb to alarming levels, Jon Stevens’ decade-long series of input trials is paying dividends in 2022.
April 25, 2022 02:28 PM
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Weed Seed Destroyer
Soybeans
VIDEO: Agriculture Invention Harnesses LED Light Inside Combine to Kill Weed Seed
Could LED light be used to kill weed seed inside a combine during harvest? The technology has already arrived, according to an inventor raised in the corn and soybean rows of Ohio farmland.
April 21, 2022 08:37 AM
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Tom Corcoran Online
Corn
Sumbi#@% Farmer Shatters Convention, Earns Big Seat at Agriculture’s Table
Tom Corcoran, the sumbi#@% farmer, has paid the price of admission and turned formulaic agriculture on its head.
April 19, 2022 07:47 AM
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Alan Taggart Lead
Used Machinery
Arkansas Farmer Stands at Heart of Agriculture’s 4WD Tractor History
Fathers of invention: The Taggart operation built eight 4WD tractors from the 1950s-1970s, testament to the mechanical genius of an Arkansas farming family.
April 12, 2022 10:26 AM
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JON MIKESELL PITCH PINE
Politics
Hunting Club Lawsuit Challenges Power of Government Surveillance on Private Land
How much power do game wardens possess without a warrant or probable cause? A hunting club lawsuit is heating up over the bounds of government access to private land.
March 17, 2022 03:49 PM
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Esbenshade Family
Succession Planning
Pennsylvania Farmer Passes a Torch of Opportunity to the Next Generation
Common goals, trust and open communication feed Pennsylvania operation
March 11, 2022 04:37 PM
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Crop Production
The Secret Life of Farmland Marbles
The shotgun houses and clapboard shacks are gone, but a child’s toy lingers in farmland rows. Time, tillage and rainfall reveal the sharecropper’s last testament: clusters of magnificent clay, agate and glass marbles.
March 09, 2022 03:15 PM
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