It’s a two-sided coin that every farmer wants to achieve: maximum yields with minimum inputs. Crop-sensor technology can, according to ongoing farmer and university research, help accomplish that.
$50 million will spent over three years in conservation assistance to farmers and ranchers in priority areas along seven major rivers in five states that drain into the Gulf.
The expansion of conservation tillage has come entirely from the adoption of no-till, which increased from 14 million acres in 1989 to nearly 63 million acres in 2004, the USDA says.
Conversation is more than a buzzword in northwest Ohio, and Gary Mavis and his son, Scott, are turning their no-till farming operation into a showcase.
Selecting the most appropriate hybrids and varieties can vastly improve profitability on your farm. But this decision can be difficult because there are so many options.
While many innovative farmers and manufacturers have played important roles in the growth of no-till, two men perhaps loom the largest — no-tiller Eugene Keeton and Howard Martin, the founder of Martin Industries.
Today, precision agriculture data services company, Prime Meridian, introduced the first independent farm data management system to help growers store and profit from their precision farm data online.
Beginning this fall, a coalition of stakeholders in agriculture will ramp up their promotion of responsible nutrient-management practices including no-till, cover crops and precision technology on farms in several endangered Illinois watersheds.
GPS-based yield data has proven to be an extremely valuable management tool, but improperly calibrated yield monitors can essentially generate difficult to interpret or useless data.
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Go behind the scenes with Leo Johnson and his son, Patrick, as they plant corn into strips for the first time on their 1,000-acre farm in Clinton, Wis. Jason Pennycook, precision specialist for 9-store Case IH dealer Johnson Tractor, comes to the rescue with remote support when Patrick runs into a problem with the planter in the field.
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