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Handy Bt Trait Table Updated and Available Now
Handy Bt Trait Table Updated and Available Now

Corn growers can use this free tool to understand which hybrids have which traits, as well as evaluate insect problems and herbicide needs in-season.

Civil War Sacrifice: Forgotten Farm Boy Was First Soldier Buried At Arlington
Civil War Sacrifice: Forgotten Farm Boy Was First Soldier Buried At Arlington

William Christman, 19, saved his family’s farm and paid with his life.

How Today's Economy is Shaping the Business-Savvy Farmer
How Today's Economy is Shaping the Business-Savvy Farmer

Alan Hoskins, president of American Farm Mortgage, shares his expectations for the economy and how it changes the buying process.

USDA Painted a Very Bearish Picture for Grain Prices This Week, Here's One Thing That Could Cause Prices to Rally
USDA Painted a Very Bearish Picture for Grain Prices This Week, Here's One Thing That Could Cause Prices to Rally

USDA's Ag Outlook Forum in Washington, D.C., this past week confirmed growing stocks in 2024/2025. Analysts say without a sudden supply disruption, the commodity price outlook remains grim.

Which State Tops The List For Precision Ag Use?
Which State Tops The List For Precision Ag Use?

It might surprise you, but it's not an "I" state. According to USDA data, the top five states using precision ag technologies account for half of the 2022 cash receipts for corn (52.6%) and soybeans (45.7%).

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Reviton Herbicide: A Revolutionary Step Change for Preplant Burndown
Reviton Herbicide: A Revolutionary Step Change for Preplant Burndown

Weed management continues to change and evolve. See how Reviton, a powerful PPO, can fit into your weed control program.

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Ferrie: Freezing and Thawing Cycles Can Help Or Hurt Compaction
Ferrie: Freezing and Thawing Cycles Can Help Or Hurt Compaction

A sudden change in soil density that occurs from the freezing-thawing process can cause problems with corn root growth this spring and impede water movement in the soil during the growing season.

Step Away From The Notepad! Gripp Launches Digital Equipment Management App
Step Away From The Notepad! Gripp Launches Digital Equipment Management App

Gripp co-founder Tracey Wiedmeyer discusses the startup's equipment tracking and management app and how it can help farmers and farm workers manage mixed fleets.

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Pretty Plants In The Garden Become Weeds In The Field

Invasive weed species tied to the ornamental plant trade are taking root in some parts of the United States. Researchers have identified “outbreaks and hot spots” in eight states. 

Next-Gen Spotlight: Lindsay Baneck Is In the Business of Selling Memories
Next-Gen Spotlight: Lindsay Baneck Is In the Business of Selling Memories

In addition to traditional row crops and cattle, Lindsay Baneck operates a direct-to-consumer produce business in Wisconsin. These days, her goals are geared toward success and sustainability.

How To Increase Your Potential SAF Tax Credits Now
How To Increase Your Potential SAF Tax Credits Now

The practices used during the 2024 growing season will have a direct impact on the ability to take advantage of these incentives. Mitchell Hora of Continuum Ag shares what you need to know.

EPA Issues Existing Stocks Order For Dicamba Products
EPA Issues Existing Stocks Order For Dicamba Products

On February 14, the EPA issued an existing stocks order for dicamba products previously registered for over-the-top use.

Feds Issue Warning on Chinese-Manufactured Drones as Farmer Adoption Soars
Feds Issue Warning on Chinese-Manufactured Drones as Farmer Adoption Soars

As drone use in agriculture climbs the FBI and CISA are warning about data theft from Chinese-manufactured drones. The ag industry is on the lookout but U.S.-made drone options are limited.

Your Mental Health Matters
Your Mental Health Matters

Two farmers speak up on the importance of addressing stress.

10 Photos That Will Make You Exclaim 'What A Day!'
10 Photos That Will Make You Exclaim 'What A Day!'

We've all had one of those horrible, no good, very bad days.

Complete These 8 Steps To Transition to Vertical Farming
Complete These 8 Steps To Transition to Vertical Farming

You’ve removed dense and compacted soil layers, balanced fertility and pH through the profile and set up your soil for vertical farming. Here are the final boxes to check to move away from horizontal farming.

Top 5 Takeaways From the Latest Census of Agriculture
Top 5 Takeaways From the Latest Census of Agriculture

USDA NASS has released the 2022 Census of Agriculture data, which revealed important information about the current state of agriculture.

Let's Start Sizzling: 10 Ways to Express Your Love
Let's Start Sizzling: 10 Ways to Express Your Love

Need a good one-liner to make your valentine swoon? Try one these tested and true oaths of love featuring the best animal on the farm this Valentine's Day.

Who Needs Chocolate? Make a Bacon Bouquet for Your Sweetheart
Who Needs Chocolate? Make a Bacon Bouquet for Your Sweetheart

Say "I love you" with this tasty treat.

Antler Madness: Deer Shed Thieves Poach Farmland, Private Property
Antler Madness: Deer Shed Thieves Poach Farmland, Private Property

Lust or greed, trespassers are drawn to farmland by deer sheds. Private property is no barrier to a shed thief.

3 Factors Drive Downturn: Net Farm Income Forecast to Be Down 25%
3 Factors Drive Downturn: Net Farm Income Forecast to Be Down 25%

“It’s hard to put yourself in growth mode when things are getting so expensive,” says Tanner Ehmke with CoBank.

Leaders in Ag: U.S. Grains Council's Ryan LeGrand
Leaders in Ag: U.S. Grains Council's Ryan LeGrand

As president and CEO, Ryan LeGrand's job is to develop relationships and export markets for U.S. grain farmers. His advice for those who are just getting started in their career is a bit unconventional.

8 Tips to Better Understand U-Joints
8 Tips to Better Understand U-Joints

Here are some tips and tricks about U-joint maintenance and repair.

Tall Order for Short Corn: The Latest On Short-Stature Hybrids
Tall Order for Short Corn: The Latest On Short-Stature Hybrids

Compact corn hybrids appear to take winds 50 mph in stride with little greensnap or lodging resulting. However, yield performance hasn’t been as consistent, and technology providers are working to change that.

BASF Announces EPA Approval of Surtain Herbicide
BASF Announces EPA Approval of Surtain Herbicide

The product is intended for use on corn acres and is the industry’s first solid-encapsulated herbicide technology.

Sentiment Takes a Dive in Purdue's Latest Ag Economy Barometer
Sentiment Takes a Dive in Purdue's Latest Ag Economy Barometer

The barometer reported its lowest reading since May 2023, falling seven points from December and 24 points from January 2023.

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Feed Your Crop and Soil in One Application with the Most Effective Fertilizers on the Market
Feed Your Crop and Soil in One Application with the Most Effective Fertilizers on the Market

Ferticell™ products are unique dual-purpose inputs; they are both a fertilizer and a food source for the biome. We use unicellular freshwater algae to carry the product to the plant.

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2024 Top Producer of the Year Finalist PJ Haynie: Advocacy And Tenacity
2024 Top Producer of the Year Finalist PJ Haynie: Advocacy And Tenacity

No step is too big for Top Producer finalist, PJ Haynie. Deep family roots are the foundation of his farming legacy. 

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Be on the Lookout for Hidden Yield Threats in 2024
Be on the Lookout for Hidden Yield Threats in 2024

The countdown is on for 2024 soybean planting. That means you’re looking at variety, optimal planting populations and optimal soil temperature to maximize your potential soybean yield.

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Record Auction Prices Stack Up For 140-hp to 160-hp Tractors
Record Auction Prices Stack Up For 140-hp to 160-hp Tractors

For example, at Lawrence Crom’s retirement auction, his like-new 2021 Case IH Maxxum 150 tractor sold for $133,000, plus a $1,250 online buyer fee. That’s a new record-high auction price on that model.

Case IH AF11: What You Need To Know
Case IH AF11: What You Need To Know

The AF11 brings together runtime advancements to maximize in-field productivity in a 775 hp machine.

CropX, Reinke Team Up on Actual ET Sensors
CropX, Reinke Team Up on Actual ET Sensors

CropX Technologies announced the launch of Reinke Direct ET™ by CropX, a sensor-based innovation that provides Actual Evapotranspiration (ETa) measurements on a Reinke center pivot irrigation system.

Have You Heard of Scope 3? It Offers Opportunity for Agriculture
Have You Heard of Scope 3? It Offers Opportunity for Agriculture

Scope 3 is all the buzz lately in the world of sustainability. A company’s emissions are broken down into three scopes. Scope 3 covers indirect emissions from a company’s upstream and downstream supply chain.  

2024 Top Producer Of The Year Christine Hamilton: Driven For Excellence
2024 Top Producer Of The Year Christine Hamilton: Driven For Excellence

At Christiansen Land and Cattle, they’re committed to excellence and continuous improvement, a mindset that started when Christine Hamilton’s family homesteaded in South Dakota in 1891.

Illinois Farm Families Star in Super Bowl LVIII Commercial
Illinois Farm Families Star in Super Bowl LVIII Commercial

Super Bowl fans in Illinois will be able to cheer on some familiar faces in a commercial during the big game on Sunday. Illinois pork producer Chad Leman says the commercial is all about communicating trust in farmers.

Product Guide: Expanding Opportunities In The Planter Box
Product Guide: Expanding Opportunities In The Planter Box

This roundup of almost two dozen product combinations gives details on dry formulations meant for use in corn or soybeans that replace or layer with the same company’s traditional seed fluency blends.

2024 Top Producer of the Year Finalist Kelly Garrett: Playing The Infinite Game
2024 Top Producer of the Year Finalist Kelly Garrett: Playing The Infinite Game

A farmer and cattle producer in western Iowa, Kelly Garrett’s operation continues to conquer change.

Court Rules Dicamba ‘Was Unlawfully Approved’ By EPA and Halts Use
Court Rules Dicamba ‘Was Unlawfully Approved’ By EPA and Halts Use

Forty million dicamba-tolerant soybean and cotton acres would be directly impacted by the ruling the U.S. District Court of Arizona in Tucson made Tuesday. EPA has not said when it will respond to the court's decision.

History Could Repeat Itself with Record Cattle Prices in 2024
History Could Repeat Itself with Record Cattle Prices in 2024

Cattle producers are coming off a year of record prices in 2023 but what is the outlook for the coming year?

Watch the 2024 Top Producer Awards Banquet
Watch the 2024 Top Producer Awards Banquet

If you weren't able to attend Top Producer Summit in Kansas City, you can still watch the awards banquet.

Ferrie: Does Spring Or Fall Horizontal Tillage Cause More Density Layers?
Ferrie: Does Spring Or Fall Horizontal Tillage Cause More Density Layers?

Ken Ferrie answers two additional questions: Was it allelopathic toxins in the cereal rye ahead of corn that caused such a yield ding last season? Will there be a cap to Carbon Initiative payments per farm operation?

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All for the Soil – Jacob Kaderly: Upper Midwest Regional Winner
All for the Soil – Jacob Kaderly: Upper Midwest Regional Winner

Jacob Kaderly’s passion for land stewardship can be credited to his father’s management practices on the family farm and his service on the Wisconsin State Conservation Board during the 1970s.

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Eye on Erosion – Chris Von Holten: Midwest Regional Winner
Eye on Erosion – Chris Von Holten: Midwest Regional Winner

In the early 1980s, teenager Chris Von Holten, watched as heavy rains eroded the soil away on his family’s Illinois farm. Because of that event, Von Holten’s farming management focuses on soil preservation.

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Long-Term Vision – Don Morse: Northeast Regional Winner
Long-Term Vision – Don Morse: Northeast Regional Winner

Almost 50 years ago, Michigan farmer Don Morse put conservation tillage to the test on his 3,100 acres, years before the federal government began offering subsidies to farmers as an incentive to conserve the soil.

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2024 Top Producer Women In Ag Award: Demand Creation Is Not A Spectator Sport
2024 Top Producer Women In Ag Award: Demand Creation Is Not A Spectator Sport

As a sixth generation Iowa farmer, Pam Johnson has been sharing agriculture’s food, fiber and fuel stories her entire life.

US Justice Department Probing ADM Accounting Practices
US Justice Department Probing ADM Accounting Practices

According to two sources, in recent days the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has interviewed former ADM employees, ramping up pressure on the global commodities giant.

3 Trends to Watch in the 2024 Land Market
3 Trends to Watch in the 2024 Land Market

Jim Rothermich of Iowa Appraisals shares what he expects from land values in the year ahead.

They Prioritize Genuine People Power
They Prioritize Genuine People Power

In South Dakota, you’ll find a 130-year-old dairy operation that runs on passion, perseverance and a focus on finding the right people. This dynamic trifecta is what makes up the unparalleled culture of MoDak Dairy.

Metal Detecting Addict Finds Buried Treasure Under Farmland
Metal Detecting Addict Finds Buried Treasure Under Farmland

Crackle, whine, beep, and buzz, Andy Thaxton metal detects farmland, hunting coins, keys, bullets, bells—and one more holy grail.

Ag Industry Mourns Death of Bill Northey
Ag Industry Mourns Death of Bill Northey

On Monday, February 5 the news of Bill Northey’s passing quickly spread through the agriculture industry, of which he dedicated his professional life to serving.