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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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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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WeedOut
Crop Production
Killing the Weed King: Could Groundbreaking Pollen Technology Control Palmer Amaranth?
Could Palmer amaranth, the king of resistant weeds and crippler of herbicides, be dethroned by its own sex drive? A herbicide-free technology is under testing and aims to attack pigweed with its own pollen.
June 24, 2021 01:52 PM
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Travis Matthews
Farmland
Flooded and Forgotten, Missouri Farmers Call Out FEMA
Faith no more: After two years of waiting on FEMA, Missouri farmers have lost all trust in the federal bureaucracy.
June 24, 2021 01:51 PM
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Michael Bennett
Pork
Truth, Lies and Wild Pigs: Missouri Hunter Prosecuted on Presumption of Guilt?
When hunter Michael Bennett bought eight pigs at a sale barn, the wheels began turning on one of the most bizarre feral hog stories on record, and unleashed questions over guilt, innocence, and state power.
April 27, 2021 02:27 PM
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Corn
Killing Hogzilla: Hunting A Monster Wild Pig
The history of wild pig hunts is filled with unusual stories, but the chase for a 750-lb. beast hiding in plain sight on a Mississippi farm ranks as a standalone account. Farming reality outshines fiction.
April 06, 2021 10:13 AM
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Crop Production
Plastic Farming Around Bend for US Agriculture?
Bioplastic—grown by farmers—could be massive for the agriculture industry, if related technology proves economical from field production to processing plant.
April 06, 2021 07:53 AM
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MONK FIRE LEAD
Corn
Fire in the Corn: Farmer’s Best Crop of Lifetime Burns Day Before Harvest
When David Monk, 78, lost the best yielding corn of his life to fire, he took the loss on the chin and remained a farmer grateful for his community.
March 31, 2021 09:14 AM
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Harnessed to six-row, alternating strips of corn and soybeans, Jim Nichols boomed a 292 bu. yield average. Standing on the edge of his farmland, Nichols points upward at a carbon secret: His corn crop comes from the sky.
Crop Production
Corn’s Carbon Cowboy Busts Outstanding Yields
Harnessed to six-row, alternating strips of corn and soybeans, Jim Nichols boomed a 292 bu. yield average. Standing on the edge of his farmland, Nichols points upward at a carbon secret: His corn crop comes from the sky.
March 17, 2021 02:57 PM
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