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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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Crops
Golden Rice Separates Reason, Radicalism
Sticking GMO science on the back shelf carries the highest consequences. As millions of children go blind and die due each year due to vitamin A deficiency, opponents of Golden Rice whistle past the graveyard.
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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ANT-BALL
Technology
Where Will Fire Ant March End?
Invasive fire ants, six-legged devils barely an eighth of an inch long, are a scourge to farming and livestock production. Keep the granule bait close, and the Benadryl closer.
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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KENT-WINTER
Crops
Big Yields and Tiny Aphids in Crosshairs
When Winter squeezed the chemical trigger on a sugarcane aphid army, he didn’t know he was protecting bin-busting grain: the best sorghum crop of his life.
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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JEREMY-JACK
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Mississippi Farmer Finds Value in Precision Ag Benchmarking
Guesswork is a bedfellow of loss.
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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BOTTLE-BEAL
Crop Production
Digging Up Seed Bottles and Weed Ghosts
When William James Beal crept out under cover of night and buried 20 uniform bottles filled with a mixture of soil and seed in 1879, he lit the fuse on agriculture’s longest running experiment.
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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Crop Production
Weed Survey Forms a Fight Plan
10,000-farmer sample seeks best management plan answers to resistance
January 27, 2021 02:08 PM
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Technology
Consider Fueling Your Farm with Propane
With record storage of 100 million barrels, propane production is on the rise and prices remain low, which is a distinct advantage for row crops farmers and poultry producers these days.
January 27, 2021 02:07 PM
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Weather
How Resurrection Plants Could Lead to More Drought-Tolerant Crops
The bizarre self-preservation abilities of resurrection plants like Oropetium hold tremendous promise toward engineering stronger drought-tolerance in crops, and the effects soon could reach farmland.
January 27, 2021 02:07 PM
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Crop Production
Blasting Weeds to Oblivion
Grit applicator fires weed-and-feed bullets
January 27, 2021 02:07 PM
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Crop Production
RNAi Sniper Technology Alters Crops in Field
The agriculture industry may be on the cusp of an unprecedented takeoff with the advent of ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi) – a sniper’s bullet technology with implications for every aspect of crop growth. Disease, drought, pests and much more are in the crosshairs and the possibilities for this non-GMO crop alteration technology seem boundless.
January 27, 2021 02:07 PM
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