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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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Jon Stevens 2021
Crop Production
The Heretic Farmer: Jon Stevens’ Big Adios to Mainstream Ag
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.”
September 21, 2021 10:06 AM
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Chris Bennett
weed 8 2021
Crop Production
Breaking Pandora’s Box: Resistant Weed Future Looms Large for US Farmers
Farmer beware: The future impact of herbicide-resistant weeds is a question within a greater Pandora’s Box.
August 31, 2021 12:05 PM
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Chris Bennett
ns2021
Crop Production
Regulatory Hell: Farmer and Veteran Wins 10-Year Wetlands Fight with Government
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.
August 30, 2021 11:55 AM
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Chris Bennett
adam chappell 76
Crop Production
Release the Turnrow Monster: Adam Chappell Moves to 76” Wide Row Cotton
Plant half the seed, yet maintain yield? Less is more for Adam Chappell: He’s all in on 76” rows and is “not going back.”
August 11, 2021 09:47 AM
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Chris Bennett
Wes Kirkpatrick post-flood
Crop Production
Freakish Flood: Arkansas Farmers Fight $250M Crop Loss after Historical Summer Deluge
Flooded by freakish summer rains, southeast Arkansas farmers are trying to salvage their crop season after a $250M loss, and waiting on word about disaster designation.
August 10, 2021 09:15 AM
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Chris Bennett
Kirkpatrick-Stevens
Crop Production
Blood Runs Deep: Farm Families Preserve American History
Every farm a story: Follow the bloodline of America’s farming families over decades and centuries, across countries, states, and counties.
August 04, 2021 02:18 PM
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Chris Bennett
CARL LUCAS TRIO
Used Machinery
Farmer Defies All Odds, Survives Horrific PTO Accident
Carl Lucas’ unlikely survival after falling into the steel grip of a PTO shaft is a chilling account of farm machinery danger: “Look at me and learn. Look at my missing arm and remember.”
July 28, 2021 12:36 PM
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Chris Bennett
Phillip Tomlinson
Crop Production
Rock Steady: Farmer Keeps Eyes on Faith, Risk, and Reward
Phillip Tomlinson’s farm is everything—and nothing: “I do everything I can to take risk off the table...but I’m driven by an eternal perspective, otherwise my life was only as good as my farm or last crop.”
July 28, 2021 12:36 PM
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Chris Bennett
Three Magness Crew
Tractors
Beast to Beauty: Auction Find Reveals Historical Tractor and Family Treasure
When a historical tractor, lost under seven coats of paint, quietly hit the auction floor, Dan Magness jumped on an opportunity and painstakingly resurrected a piece of Americana.
July 13, 2021 03:38 PM
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Chris Bennett
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Pork
Wild Pigs Could Trigger Decimation of US Pork Industry
What happens when wild pigs are given 1,000 tons of groceries per day in the form of landfill trash? Expect a ticking time bomb, and quite possibly, a $50 billion blow to the entire U.S. pork industry.
July 13, 2021 03:35 PM
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