Enjoy this roundup of stories from Farm Journal’s May/June 2022 issue:
Flak Jackets in Fields: Ukrainian Farmers Fight for Their Future
Food is essential to sustaining life and will ultimately be the key to rebuilding Ukraine’s future.
Clues to Our Future: 13 Trends That Could Impact Your Farm
Dive into these 13 trends that could impact your farm.
Farm Journal Test Plots: How the Right Hybrid Pays Off
How important is it to pick the right hybrid for each field? A 2021 Farm Journal study suggests the correct selection can increase revenue by as much as $88 per acre.
Roth IRAs for Farm Kids: The Power of Time and Interest
If your summer farm help involves your child or grandchild, you can combine that hard work with a financial life lesson.
Machinery Pete Spotlights Two Machinery Market Surprises
High demand, low supply send planter and combine prices to the moon.
Growing Pains: Companies Focus on Creating a Carbon Market Foundation
While companies have big aspirations for carbon programs, they are simultaneously recognizing changes that need to be made to increase participation.
How to Conquer the Cornfield Wrecking Ball of Tar Spot
Evaluate your crop’s vulnerability to the destructive force of tar spot.
Counting Cows: Drought, Costs Will Drive Further Reductions
With spring upon us and drought persists, liquidation puts the industry on track to reduce the nation’s cowherd back near 2014 levels, which was the smallest beef cowherd since 1952.
How to Tool Up For In-Field Repairs with a Mobile Shop
From throwing a 5-gal. bucket full of tools into the bed of the truck to a full-blown service truck, farmers can create a mobile shop. Here are a range of possibilities to consider.
Upset to Global Agricultural Trade? Long-Term Impacts of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
The Russia-Ukraine conflict threatens to upend world trade.
Chip Flory: Risk and What Ifs for the Grain Picture
USDA’s first official look at the 2022/23 marketing year is the foundation from which supply and usage estimates will be fine-tuned in the next 16 months.
Unspoken Truths About Pests: Soybean Aphids
Be on the lookout for this mother of clones.
A 5,000-Tractor Farmer Army: The Legacy of Tractorcade
Eating wind for 1,800 miles, Don Kimbrell crossed a country in 21 days, driving a John Deere G into history. He rode in Tractorcade — a 5,000-tractor farmer army that rumbled into Washington, D.C., in 1979, and occupied the National Mall, demanding political attention to address an agriculture industry in collapse.
