Will the Heritage Foundation write the next farm bill?
Midwest corn and soybean producers saw margins too low to cover all their costs in 2016, according to a new report from the Rabobank Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory Group.What does that...
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Removing deadweight from your farming operation
Producers need to be vigilant and remove deadweight from their business. This can mean selling machinery or negotiating more affordable cash rents. Right now in agriculture economic margin compression...
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House committee: Adequate credit critical for agriculture
“As a result of the growing stress in the farm economy, many farmers and ranchers are now having difficulty covering their costs,” says Dallas Tonsager, Farm Credit Administration,American agriculture...
View ArticleWill the Heritage Foundation write the next farm bill?
Midwest corn and soybean producers saw margins too low to cover all their costs in 2016, according to a new report from the Rabobank Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory Group.What does that...
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Removing deadweight from your farming operation
Producers need to be vigilant and remove deadweight from their business. This can mean selling machinery or negotiating more affordable cash rents. Right now in agriculture economic margin compression...
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House committee: Adequate credit critical for agriculture
“As a result of the growing stress in the farm economy, many farmers and ranchers are now having difficulty covering their costs,” says Dallas Tonsager, Farm Credit Administration,American agriculture...
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Long, challenging harvest produces good yields
State could set a soybean record of 110 million bushels. An early-season blast of cold and snow whipped through the heartland in November, halting what has been a challenging harvest for many growers...
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Farmer credits “lots of little things,” for his record crop
“It's not always how much water you’ve got, it’s how you regulate it." Despite drought, limited irrigation and only his second year returning to growing cotton, Lamb County grower Lynn Gullett is...
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Career-best cotton yields
Like a shovel was to row-watering, a moisture probe is to Lynn Gullett's farming operation today -- an important tool. Olton, Texas, grower Lynn Gullett harvests his career-best cotton crop. In the...
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What's new in ag? Dec. 10-14
Here is a gallery of what's hot or happening in ag this week. In this edition of what's new in ag, we learn about a partnership that takes data and changes into financial management. Plus, Nachurs...
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Harvests exceed expectations
Corn averages 177 bushels per acre; soybeans average 49 bushels. Snowstorms in mid-April left much of Wisconsin blanketed in a foot of snow, with northeastern parts of the state buried under 2 to 3...
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Harvest weed seed control
Destroying weed seeds with combine modifications, therefore reducing the return of seeds to the soil weed seedbank, is an effective way of reducing herbicide selection pressure. Source: Iowa State...
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From the field to the bin: Shifting focus to grain storage
Cooler weather means it’s time to monitor your grain bins to ensure that grain quality is kept throughout the storage period. Source: Penn State UniversityBy: Zachary LarsonFor many farms across the...
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NCGA announces 2018 Yield Contest winners
The 18 winners in six production categories had verified yields averaging more than 349 bushels per acre. With improved seed varieties, advanced production techniques and innovative growing practices,...
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AgSafe advances agricultural worker safety programs in various states
Helping agricultural employers find practical solutions to the unique challenges that worker safety regulations pose is a big part of what AgSafe does When worker safety programs were mandated in...
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2018 Arkansas rice, soybeans faced tough weather challenges
A cold winter, hot, dry summer, wet fall made 2018 a hard fight for Arkansas' top two crops, soybeans and rice. A year of weather extremes — from a hard-frozen winter to a summer of drought to...
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The geography of high corn yelds
The 2018 yield surpassed the last record yield set in 2017 of 176.6 bushels per acre. From 2013 to 2018, U.S. corn yields have been above trend yields an average of 8.2 bushels per year. Yield...
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Evaluating results of the 2018 Ohio Corn Performance Tests
Researchers say to avoid selecting a hybrid based on data from a single test site. In 2018, the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service estimated Ohio’s corn yield at 193 bushels per acre, which...
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What to do with compacted fields?
2018 was the wettest on record in much of the Midwest making field work very challenging. This resulted in some fields getting severely compacted or rutted. What do you do now? It was a wet fall...
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As much as 100,000 acres of Georgia cotton awaited harvest in January
In early January, between 10 and 15 percent of the crop was still in the field, but fields started to dry out and growers were able to resume harvesting. As Georgia cotton farmers prepare for this...
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