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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.

NRGene unravels crop genomes to produce accurate, cost-effective DNA sequence
It’s a weather package delivered right to a grower’s doorstep.
What’s around the bend for precision agriculture? A new information-packed report from the Context Network carries significant implications for growers, retailers, industry professionals, and ag companies.
Granular, a software and analytics company that provides a farm management platform for farmers, is one company leading the charge to offer producers new software tools.
In a huge expansion of their precision agriculture presence, Topcon has scooped up Digi-Star, a leading ag company related to weight sensors and control systems for equipment manufacturers.
New technology in agriculture
When buying and transporting used equipment, pigweed has been known to tag along for the ride.
Green Sense Farms of Portage, Ind., is removing weather from the farming equation and scrambling to meet demand.
Peter Blezard believes the most significant technological leap in agriculture for 100 years is waiting on the cusp of farmland -- nitrogen fixation. If he’s correct, agriculture may have an opportunity to reduce nitrogen fertilizer use by 50% in all major global food crops within a decade.
Neonicotinoid loss would carry mammoth consequences for farmers
Pod-heavy fields a marriage of research and farmer innovation
The weed battle merges herbicides with cultural practices
What do Bt-resistant pink bollworms found in fields in India have to do with U.S. agriculture? A lot.
When buying seed, yield potential, disease resistance and stress tolerance are top of mind. Seed companies also add seed purity to that list.
Read about the latest upgrades and options in several irrigation systems.
Management zones are a farmer’s guide to variable-rate farming.
Management zones are the foundation of a good soil fertility program. Uniform fields are a rarity, and growers need to manage land according to soil variability.
Cover crops are a bustling industry within agriculture, but, the cover crop drumbeat is also met with skepticism or opposition, and some producers point toward the fallacy of blanket acceptance.
Switching part of your acres to no-till is as simple as just parking the tillage tractor, right? Maybe not. Here are a few considerations before trying no-till for the first time.
Collecting across-the-board data is increasingly important for the sustainability and success of your business, but it doesn’t have to be a monumental task.
As an Illinois farmer, you know that long-lived farm businesses learn to thrive in an ever-changing environment.
When farmland draws a premium, you’d expect the soil to be in good shape, right? More landowners are considering fertility clauses in their farm leases to ensure tenants don’t suck the soil dry.
Biofuels groups have high hopes a Biden Administration will get the RFS back on track. But an announcement just days on the job seems to showcase a Biden Administration’s push for electric vehicles instead.
Spilled blood never dries. Roughly 175 years after the mysterious death of Jane Story Perryman, the farming matriarch rests in forgotten solitude.
What does everyone want? Tractors in good condition, with low hours, often 10 to 20 years old. Why? The price of new equipment just keeps going up every year.
A conservation plan basically means writing down how to use a farm’s natural resources in as detailed a fashion as you can.
Just days on the job, a Biden-Administration is giving a glimpse into the new administration’s priorities. How could a focus on climate and COVID recovery impact farmers and ranchers? We explore on U.S. Farm Report.
See the three winners for January 2021.
Boeing Co said on Friday it will begin delivering commercial airplanes capable of flying on 100% biofuel by the end of the decade.
The Trump and Obama administrations had very different relationships with agriculture and rural America. Will the Biden Administration learn any lessons from those two predecessors?
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