Crop Protection
Farm Journal wants to help you address your agronomic management and technology use this season with its 2018 Yield Tour program.
Climate Corporation’s Climate FieldView is partnering with AgWorks, DroneDeploy, MyAgData, Sentera and Skymatics to provide new capabilities within its platform.
University of Illinois (U of I) recently released crop budgets for three regions in Illinois based on historical returns and costs to discover dismal profit forecasts for the 2019 season.
While commodity prices stay in the dumps, input costs haven’t taken the same nosedive.
Federal scientists have determined that a family of widely used pesticides poses a threat to dozens of endangered and threatened species, including Pacific salmon, Atlantic sturgeon and Puget Sound orcas.
Agricultural groups challenge California weed-killer warning
Manage fall-emerging weeds before they can cut into 2018 yields
California bans use of some farming pesticides near schools
A pest boss—one member of a farm’s management team in charge of everything involving weeds, insects and diseases—earns his keep by preventing surprises. “That’s his job—to never be caught off guard,” says Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie. “A pest boss usually treats a problem while other farmers are still talking about it.” That’s a tall order, considering how many insects and diseases can attack crops. But good pest bosses approach it systematically, Ferrie explains. They know what pests are likely to occur and when to expect them. They know how they will control them, where they will obtain pesticides and who will apply them. They target their scouting and know when to treat. Good records of every field make the task easier in successive years.