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Today’s agriculture headlines and expert perspectives serving farmers, ranchers, crop consultants, livestock nutritionists and the entire U.S. ag community.
A new wave of technology development is putting farmers in the driver’s seat. Examples include EarthSense, Rantizo, Rabbit Tractors, PumpTrakr, Zimmerman Manufacturing and GroGuru.
FAST Global Solutions, Inc. announces the divestiture of the Fast Ag Solutions product lines and associated facilities in Windom, MN and Gilman, IL to the existing management team led by Cody Fast.
For model year 2022, John Deere is introducing new 400 series, 600 series and Hagie STS sprayers. “We have a complete offering for all sprayer customers,” Joel Basinger says.
Used equipment values have continued to increase the first quarter of 2021. That’s true across nearly all equipment categories, including self-propelled sprayers.
The arrival of a precision, pellet-slinging, automated rover may provide almond growers with a cutting-edge NOW control weapon. Welcome to the age of robotic mummy removal.
From boom priming and a nozzle control system to multiple camera functions, the six new sprayer products will be further field-tested this year.
BASF and Bosch are developing new technology for weed management. Their system photographs weeds, signals nozzles to spray and records the data in milliseconds. Farmers then get a map printout for easy reference.
A high capacity and high output spreader with unmatched accuracy.
“The more tech we can develop to allow farmers to get productivity out of their land without having to spend so much money on fertilizer and inputs, the better off everybody is,” says John Deere’s Julian Sanchez.
Reducing herbicide usage by 97% in pre-emergence and 88% in post-emergence spraying, Greeneye Technology might be the ‘next-big-thing’ in sprayer technology.
WHAT IS OMNiPOWER™ PLATFORM? The OMNiPOWER™ platform is a mobile diesel-powered platform designed to handle a large variety of implements commonly used in agriculture, including the New Leader NL5000 G5 spreader.
In today’s challenging environment, farmland sale-leasebacks are becoming more common and potentially smart strategy for farmers.
Colorado is the first state to announce it has successfully eradicated its feral hog population. Here’s how they did it.
For 2020, the national average for cash rents on cropland is $139 per acre, which is down $1 from 2019.
The start to 2021 is showing an increase in commodity prices. From fertilizer prices to seed prices, farm inputs are also on the rise, which could include the prices farmers may pay for cash rents next year.
The Senior Vice President of Real Estate Operations for Farmers National Company reported during the first six month of its fiscal year, land sales were up 56% over the same time last year.
Key forces are converging to send farmland values higher — maybe even to historic levels.
Understand how this option fits into a rental agreement.
U.S. farm real estate values are seeing a rapid rise in 2021, with the Western Corn Belt seeing values rise at a faster pace than the East, but the storyline could change, according to Jackson Takach of Farmer Mac.
How much does it cost to rent cropland this year? According to NASS, the average price is $141 per acre. That’s $2 higher than last year, and up $7 from five years ago.
Farmland sales continue to raise eyebrows and challenge—or set—records. Just look at these farmland sales results.
The 2022 increase in values marks the largest increase state since 2014 and is the highest non-inflation-adjusted statewide land value in the history of the survey.
High prices cure high prices, but will that be the case with the record-breaking farmland prices seen in 2021 and early 2022?
Farmland remains in a delicate supply-versus-demand balance.
The state hosts “corporate farming laws,” barring corporations and limited liability companies from owning and leasing farms and ranches.
The ‘it looked good from the road’ trend continued into western Iowa on Wednesday. In Illinois, scouts found a good crop, but maybe not the bumper crop they did last year.
The stronger land prices of late 2021 continued higher through the first half of 2022.