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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Soybeans
Soybean Farmers Hopeful $461 Million Buried at Bottom of Mississippi River
Digging the depth of the lower Mississippi from 45’ to 50’ could generate an extra $461 million annually for the U.S. soybean industry.
July 13, 2021 03:35 PM
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Matt Brechwald, Off-Farm Income
Farmland
Farm Dream: Microphone in Hand, Matt Brechwald Bootstraps into Agriculture
Farming success is chained to the highest premium paid across a long series of benchmarks, and Matt Brechwald’s farm tale, split between dirt and the digital world, firmly fits the mold.
June 24, 2021 02:05 PM
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Technology
While America Slept, China Stole the Farm
China has breached the inner walls of the U.S. agriculture industry in what has arguably been the most expansive heist in farming history.
June 24, 2021 02:01 PM
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