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Consider using those slower hours to ponder how your summer and fall can be new and improved.
Research shows that success with conservation practices is optimized with a targeted, stepwise approach.
What does your personality have to do with your entrepreneurship? Field Work hosts Zach Johnson and Mitchell Hora explore the traits of successful business founders.
Plastic-based products and materials are in short supply as rising costs also deliver sticker shock on many farm supply products. From demand to production shortages at plants, the problem first popped up last summer.
John Phipps wraps up his three-part series on the impacts and implications of the worldwide microchip shortage by talking about the possible impacts on the future.
Based on a Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) survey, 58% of farmers who planted cover crops reported they saw soil health benefits in under two years.
The economics of planting forest buffers—a zone of trees between farm fields and streams—have been documented through decades of research and real-world experience of local farmers.
Most months John Phipps provides a book review for Top Producer. Here are some of his favorites from the last few years (in no particular order).
Fill out the form to access three sessions covered carbon markets and carbon sequestration.
Carbon markets offer both economic and environmental value to farmers. Are you ready to seize this evolving opportunity?
Stephanie Kelton’s introduction is not great writing or fully explanatory, but it is the best guide to real-world fiscal and monetary policy today I have read.
Learn more about how farmers growing key ingredients for brands such as Cascadian Farms, Cheerios, Nature Valley and Pillsbury are exploring the potential of regenerative agriculture.
Learn more about how farmers growing key ingredients for brands such as Cascadian Farms, Cheerios, Nature Valley and Pillsbury are exploring the potential of regenerative agriculture.
Susan Jaster of Lincoln University and other ranchers in her peer group are seeing improved soil health numbers and increased microbial activity as part of a research grant from USDA’s SARE program.
Researchers try to tease out what makes some areas more inclined to plant cover crops.
Biden is introducing a plan to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. As some U.S. farmers see commodity prices hit a seven-year high, ag groups say moving land out of production may be a tough sell.
A Mexican judge has sided with Bayer in a legal challenge over a government policy that seeks to ban glyphosate, in a temporary reprieve from a looming ban on the widely-used herbicide.
Alonzo fills two leadership roles for the company, including its strategy and sustainability efforts, both on a global scale.
Farmers have more questions than answers as they evaluate current opportunities, but there are several things that are coming into focus.
Farmers in 17 states who have used no-till, strip till and cover crops in the past nine years could be eligible to benefit.
Global commodity prices are expected to stay firm around current levels in 2021 after recovering in the first quarter buoyed by strong economic growth, the World Bank said on Tuesday.
Farmers flush with cash after a run-up in grain prices are clamoring for farm machinery maker AGCO Corp to get them new equipment in time for this year’s harvest.
Farmers have the opportunity to be a pivotal part of carbon sequestration.
Tim Crews and Rachel Stroer of The Land Institute will describe their vision for an agricultural future built on the necessity to feed humanity within ecological limits.
John Phipps details part two of the ongoing implications and impacts of the microchip shortage.
Tragedy struck a Canadian hockey team in 2018 when a semi crashed into the bus carrying the hockey team. For one Canadian farmer, he not only lost members of the team he helped coach, but friends who were like family.
The April farmland price index climbed to 78.6 — the highest level since 2012.
This year has been an incredibly active and competitive farmland market across all the Midwest
John Phipps shares the hopeful signs around us we might be overlooking as we mimic those stories of persistence, patience and progress.
Learn how to start the conversation, clarify expectations (both yours and theirs) and set healthy boundaries for your heirs within your farm’s transition plan.