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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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Precision Agriculture Careers Get Four-Year Boost
The first four-year precision agriculture degree program in the United States is set to kick off at South Dakota State University in September 2016.
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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Weather
Birds Point Levee: Water Gone, Scars Remain
Overtopping be damned, on the night of May 2, 2011, Birds Point levee was blown and 130,000 acres of Missouri farmland were swallowed. The water left, but the scars of shattered legacies remain. When the rights of agricultural producers clash with government regulation, federal law holds the trump cards.
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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Crop Production
Only Anti-GMO Hippies Grow Organic Corn, Right? Wrong.
Timothy Gertson kicks up dirt off Texas’ Gulf Coast, southwest of Houston in Wharton County. He’s a young 31, but Gertson is an old-school farmer with no time for ideology and no wish to curb his options. Field decisions across his 2,000 acres at G5 Farms are dictated by dollars, and in 2016, he’s found a profit window in organic corn.
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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Business
Could Truffles Be a Fit For U.S. Farmland?
Think truffles are an agricultural sideshow? A billion dollars in demand says otherwise.
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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Irrigation Timing Doesn’t Have to Be Guesswork
Guesswork and irrigation are long-time farming partners, but it can be a happy-in-hell marriage. When to turn on the spigot? How much water to deliver? Every farm soaks and dries in isolation because one field’s irrigation recipe is another’s death sentence.
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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Technology
Water Hog Is a Drainage Beast
The evil twin of drought is drainage and both can cripple a crop in short time. When a river rises or a culvert backs up, water can sit on farmland for weeks and prevent planting and harvest, or simply kill crops mid-season. Time to saddle a Water Hog beast and pump directly through a levee.
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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World Markets
High-Tech Tools Track Counterfeit Cotton Crops
Pirates are stealing billions during the exchange of U.S. agriculture goods, and pumping the wares right back onto American department store shelves. But CSI is ready to take on agriculture crime.
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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Searching for More Simplicity in Precision Ag
The promise of precision agriculture to find the sweet spot between hardware and agronomics, under the banner of simplicity, hasn’t arrived.
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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News
Single-Row Tractor Is Back and Headed for Cuba
The single-row tractor is back and about to roll across a machinery graveyard. The first American-owned factory on Cuban soil in 55 years will manufacture single-row tractors.
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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Farmland
Secrets Buried Beneath Farmland
Cooperation between agriculture and archaeology vital to preserve American Indian history
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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