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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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Stalk Knockers, mounted just under the corn head on each row, serve as a battering ram to break corn stalks, essentially preserving tire life.
Hurricane devastation, saltwater creep, mosquito plagues, and a life-threatening truck accident, Brandon Vail is emblematic of American farmers forced to fight through a chain of wrecking balls.
Jacko Garrett’s remarkable 40-year quest to feed the hungry began with a single trailer of grain from his farm and continues today with millions of pounds of grain directed to the needy.
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Four growers from Illinois, Indiana, Kansas and Colorado, sound off regarding weed control in 2021.
A peculiar southeast Arkansas farmhouse conceals an obscure treasure of agriculture, grit, and ingenuity behind its walls—a 19th century steamboat.
Welcome to Rob Meek’s timeless world, where the toymaking maestro painstakingly crafts farm toys from wood, built from scratch.
Jon Stevens is an agriculture heretic: “Don’t argue with me about the awesome changes I’ve seen on my ground. You can argue with my logic and how I arrived there, but not the results.”
Farmer beware: The future impact of herbicide-resistant weeds is a question within a greater Pandora’s Box.
When the government placed a bull’s-eye on 2.2 acres of Nick Smith’s cropland, the farmer was pulled into a bureaucratic rabbit hole and lost all farm program dollars, but emerged 10 years later to tell the tale.