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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.
Agriculture-archaeological relationships, once tainted by mutual suspicion, are protecting the past and allowing farmland to serve as a vast repository for history.
When city expansion nibbles around the edges of an operation with an inch to a mile appetite, erosion of landowner will is often the tacit intention. However, legacy and livelihood are a wedded pair for many producers.
Rubber-producing plants are back on the edge of farmland, backed by the muscle of genetic breeding.
Hell or high water, producers are often forced to chase markets. However, solid data stacked over multiple years shows the peaks and troughs of a consistent crop rotation system.
Lifelong cattle and turkey producers in southwest Missouri’s Newton County, Rick and Nathan Clymer have tapped into a heavy demand vein: inland shrimp farming.
ARS research agronomist Frank Forcella believed sandblasting organic grit would be an effective weed killer. His determination to break from convention has resulted in a four-row grit blaster capable of obliterating weeds.
The mustard crop can be used as a jet fuel source, protein meal and rotational crop option
A new tool in the fight against pests, diseases, weeds and drought
Rod Thomas knows the inherent dangers of agriculture aviation: unmarked towers, guy wires and bird strikes. Add UAVs to the list.
Jason Norsworthy is attacking the soil seed bank with a no-prisoner policy: capture, burn and kill. Norsworthy is testing a new weapon in the resistant weed wars aimed directly at the seed bank reserve – narrow-windrow burning.
Groups hope more farmers will choose wheat to boost national acres
A web-based nitrogen fertilizer calculator for small grains has been updated and is available. Developed by Montana State University Extension, the tool works with winter wheat, spring wheat and barley produced after fallow. Available since 2009, the calculator was enhanced in 2015.
Technology expands market possibilities and profit potential for straw
Early technology adoption gives profitable edge to Indiana grower
The Natural Soybean and Grain Alliance (NSGA) has high hopes for UA 5814HP, a new variety commercially available beginning in fall 2015. UA5814HP, branded as Ashlock HP5A, is a vigorous variety aimed at high seed yield and protein to meet the demand from the high-end poultry industry.
South Dakota farm boy Scott Anderson brought his Wall Street experience back to the family farm and used it to develop the Cash Cow Farmer program, which he designed for simplicity and utility.
WM-Form, launched by Trimble, combines field surveys, topography analysis, design creation, cost estimation, land forming and verification.
Premium quality chicken litter key to achieve yield boosts.
New report looks beyond hardware tools and details a turn toward data integration.
Varieties, management and irrigation pave road to soybean yield crown.
Fluorescent marker technology could be a major weapon in weed battle
Sunlight into energy means fuel for plant growth – the crucial role of phosphorous in crop fields. Cell elongation and division may be the proper scientific description, but a simplified explanation is a better fit: Phosphorus cranks up plant horsepower.
There’s less fiber and post-gin cottonseed to supply byproduct markets
An unprecedented scale of seed information is available to growers. Rolling back the curtain on seed performance is no longer the sole realm of breeders and scientists, but is wide open for growers and agronomists.
Timing and location are crucial when applying phosphorus to crops. Depending on soil type and condition, application should parallel plant needs to utilize space and tools available.
Good data is the cornerstone of zone management. Management zones must be identified and not created, advised presenter Isaac Ferrie at the 2015 Farm Journal Corn College in Heyworth, Ill.
NRGene unravels crop genomes to produce accurate, cost-effective DNA sequence