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From USDA, this app evaluates nearly 100 different sprayers for droplet size under various operational setups such as nozzles, flow rates and more.
Miller Welding University awards three farmers with trips, tips and prizes.
Create simple alerts that notify you when a commodity price reaches a certain amount.
Free app from Marrone Bio Innovations allows user to calculate proper mix proportions for up to three product.s
App generates a tank mix recipe quickly on phone or tablet.
Disability insurance can help a farm survive disaster. Are you covered?
Sharp gains in beef values signal near-term low is in.
State-run firm sees Chinese Q2 soybean imports up nearly 15% from year-ago.
Stopwatch and count down timer.
Note taking program.
A scientific calculator that does conversions as well.
Prices and Charts for some key commodity markets.
But drop in soybean and wheat carryover supportive.
Recent history suggests corn prices will rally this spring/summer to slow use and push corn carryover higher by the end of the 2011-12 marketing year.
Special to The Detroit News"You can do everything right. But if Mother Nature wants to freeze off overnight, you could lose it all."Bob Boehm, manager of the Michigan Farm Bureau’s commodity and marketing departmentTwo days of frost in parts of Michigan likely damaged fruit crops because of the early growing season prompted by unusually warm weather, an industry official said Tuesday.
Soybean bulls remain in control.
Animated radar that predicts storm paths and gives weather alerts as well.
Make sounds marketing decisions.
Interactive weather app with very local results.
This app from Precision Planting functions as a second monitor in your tractor cab so that you can view planter performance in real time.
This app features animated radar images and current weather conditions.
Race tractors and win prizes.
Manage your Android phone from your computer anytime, anywhere.
Quickly estimate the amount of horsepower necessary to move an implement.
View your equipment on John Deere JDLink on your Android device.
Follow commodity futures and options on your phone or tablet.
Follow all your sports teams, skip info on teams you don’t care about.
When Curtis Cooper of Fountain Inn, S.C., needed a way to keep his wheel rake level when going over terraces, he started by drawing on a pizza box.
Southern Brazil remains too dry.
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