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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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Size Matters in Soybeans ... and Deer Hunting
The big deer of Boone and Crockett tell a soybean tale. A proper soybean variety, served on a food plot plate, is a Cadillac protein source for deer. When deer walk into an Eagle Seed soybean plots, the kitchen is always open and stocked.
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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New study indicates captive Texas deer can contract, likely transmit SARS-CoV-2 virus to each other.
Soybeans
Size Matters in Beans and Deer
Forage bean keeps food plot kitchen open
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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Crop Production
Pigweed War Reaches Beyond Fields
Resistant weed sprays carry runoff consequences
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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Soybeans
Pigweed War Reaches Far Beyond Farmland
On many farming operations, mowing has given way to high-powered pre-emerges to kill vegetation, but bald ditches may spawn a regulatory leviathan. Silt gathering in the bottom of ditches and canals; eroded turn rows; washed out roads; and hammered PTO ditches are caught in a vicious spray cycle of unintended consequences with no simple fix.
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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Crop Production
‘Magic Beans’ Monitor Grain Bins (Really!)
Thumb-sized plastic beans, packed with a world of sensor circuitry, may soon be ready to monitor grain bins and storage facilities. Toss in a magic BeanIoT pod to check grain vitals. One bean to mind them all.
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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Farmland
A Strange and Unplanted Harvest
Farmland is one of the best places to find meteorites
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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Business
Bats Save Billions In Pest Control
A secret war is waged above farmland every night. In games of hide-and-seek between bats and crop pests, the bats always win, and the victories are worth billions of dollars to U.S. agriculture.
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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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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