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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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Corn
Ag Data: Who is Driving the Bus?
Numerous companies are pushing for elbow room at the ag data table, but long-term contracts may be cause for pause for many farmers.
January 27, 2021 02:10 PM
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“I sure understand if people don’t want to listen to my words, but they can look at my soil,” Illinois producer Junior Upton says.
Corn
Using Ryegrass Cover Crop to Break Up Fragipan Soil
The eastern half of the U.S. is plagued by 50 million acres of fragipan soil. Light in color, fragipan often starts at 1’ to 2’ below the surface and roughly averages 2’ to 4’ in thickness.
January 27, 2021 02:10 PM
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RICE
Crops
Harvey Takes Big Bite at Ratoon Rice in Texas, Louisiana
The ratoon rice crop could be a near-total loss in Texas and Louisiana after the wrath of Hurricane Harvey subsides.
January 27, 2021 02:10 PM
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Chip Flory checks pods on the Western leg of Crop Tour.
Crop Production
Weeds Robbing Yield on Crop Tour
More weeds, less yield. Simple math. “We could have had more beans out there if we’d had better control of weeds,” Chip Flory says.
January 27, 2021 02:10 PM
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MT
Crop Production
Field Of Greens: Cover Crops Turn Into Picker Blessing
Mikey Taylor’s 110-acre block of cover crops has attracted pickers from multiple states and yielded a bounty of blessing.
January 27, 2021 02:10 PM
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CHIP FLORY
Corn
Crop Tour’s Good, Bad and Unforgettable
What Crop Tour years cling tightest to Chip Flory’s memory? Good, bad and unforgettable, Flory knows there is a meticulous method to the madness of Crop Tour.
January 27, 2021 02:10 PM
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GRIT
Crop Production
Grit Gun Shoots Weeds With Feed Bullets
Frank Forcella has designed a four-row organic grit blaster capable of obliterating weeds.
January 27, 2021 02:10 PM
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DBM
Crop Production
Genetically Engineered Insects Next For Agriculture?
The promise of biotech mosquitoes grabs the headlines, but the same technology utilizing genetically engineered (GE) insects is being tested on U.S. farmland.
January 27, 2021 02:10 PM
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Cannabis
Colorado Farmer Shatters Hemp’s Fiber Ceiling
Ryan Loflin bet the farm in 2013 and did what no U.S. producer had done for 70 years.
January 27, 2021 02:10 PM
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HEIL PAN
Cotton
Heil Yeah: Farm Kid is New Cotton King of the North
Just an hour and forty-fives south of the Iowa state line, 15-year-old Garrett Heil’s cotton is a testament to the determination of a remarkable farmer not old enough to qualify for a driver’s license. Heil has succeeded in producing cotton deep in the pocket of the Midwest.
January 27, 2021 02:10 PM
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