Crop Production
When Sesame Street knocked, Casey Cox threw open the door on her Georgia farm and grabbed an opportunity to take U.S. agriculture to a new audience.
Farm Journal’s John Herath and former USDA Undersecretary Bill Northey recently joined Field Work podcast hosts Mitchell Hora and Zach Johnson for the premiere of the pod’s third season.
In 1946 Yara imported its first products into the U.S.—calcium nitrate into a port in California—and the company says its footprint has not only grown but evolved in the 75 years since.
The shine of a new digital product often dulls quickly in the rows, and many farmers believe there is a gap between what is offered in the ag data market and what is needed in the rows.
Here’s a look at what you can learn from the various tests available and why you need to submit samples now.
The first documented case of glufosinate resistance in Palmer amaranth has been recorded in northeast Arkansas.
“Should I use a nitrogen stabilizer?” Simple question, but the answer is complex.
The kind actions of a man-hauling farmer still echo in time. Peter O’Neal once carried a complete stranger a half-mile through the woods to find a forgotten grave.
David and Alice Monk possess a priceless American tale in the heartland based on God, family, and farm—and in that order.
Farmers Nathan Neameyer and Paul Overby, along with researcher Mike Ostlie, are intercropping innovators intent on finding crop combinations that translate to a whole greater than component parts.
Beck’s Hybrids is the third-largest seed brand in the United States, providing high-yielding corn, soybeans, wheat, and elite alfalfa to farmers across the Midwest.
A travel ban on South African guest workers, as currently set in place by executive order, could be devastating for U.S. farming operations.
Legendary. In the annals of survival history, Todd Orr’s account is incredible and magnified by a deuce: He skirted death in two separate grizzly bear attacks separated by mere minutes.
Whether seed, fiber or cannabidiol (CBD), hemp growers share a colossal commonality: They are all learning on the go.
Derek Martin has transformed a 6,000-acre farming operation from an input-guzzling leviathan to a profit-per-acre force.
An old concept gets a new chance to combat weeds
Arkansas Crop Per Drop irrigation contest recognizes winners
Nebraska grower credits biological cocktail, management for 163.9-bu. farm record
Jason Mauck is a man obsessed with farming efficiency: A true maverick, apostle of relay cropping and farmer fueled by love of family, Mauck is bringing change to agriculture, one row at a time.
Randy Dowdy’s soil death is no mystery, insists the Georgia producer, and now a federal inspection report appears to back his claims of soil damage on record-breaking farmland due to pipeline construction.
The age of marijuana farming in the U.S. has arrived, although most farmers are caught on the sidelines. As individual state cultivation barriers topple at a dizzying pace, U.S. agriculture’s billion-dollar dance with marijuana has begun and there will be no strike of the clock at midnight.
Jimmy Frederick attributes 163.9 bu. soybeans to seed population, spacing and biologicals. Essentially, he says the booming yields were established when the planter rolled.
Whether crops, rocks, fossils or Native American artifacts, Terry Springer is a farmer possessed by his dirt.
Sensors help simplify irrigation practices, reduce overwatering and save money
Is chronic wasting disease (CWD) a potential time bomb for the agriculture industry? A silent killer stalking deer and elk, CWD continues to move quietly across the U.S.
Work by oil and gas companies contributes to irreparable soil damage
Mike McGregor commands a chicken litter operation with military precision. “Growers that have used litter for years don’t continue because it doesn’t pay; they’re still putting it on because it brings results,” he says.
Pipelines and agriculture are a contentious pair, with a growing number of farmers raising concerns over soil health, drainage issues, and responses from oil and gas companies.
More weeds, less yield. Simple math. “We could have had more beans out there if we’d had better control of weeds,” Chip Flory says.