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Growing a specialty crop can require special machinery. Steve Conrad farms in Webbers Falls, Okla., and when it comes to harvesting his spinach crop the best machine for the job was sourced from their farm shop.
USDA pushing to reopen markets
It could take weeks - or longer - before U.S. pork producers recover from export restrictions tied to a worldwide influenza outbreak, said a Purdue University agricultural economist.
Ag chief comments on H1N1, COOL, nutrition and food safety, ag research, and climate change
Cites jobs impact and nation’s dependence on foreign oil as reasons for waiver request
Effort only for those maturing Sept. 30, 2009
Will volunteer corn in your corn-on-corn or soybean fields cause you problems this year? Listen in as Mike Moechnig, extension weed specialist at South Dakota State University, provides agronomic advice on the topic.
May day. May day. This study shows every day of delay in May trims back potential soybean yields.
This weed is really obnoxious, but it can’t hide from remote sensing. Scientists are hunting down the invasive weed from the air.
Some call it charcoal, others see it as black gold. Could biochar made from biomass be the perfect fertilizer?