[Link] Sap pH as a susceptibility indicator
While laboratory soil and tissue tests are good and necessary tools, we often don’t receive the results for several days, or even up to two weeks in…
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[Link] Op-Ed: Feeling the drought on my family farm
I can see my future: It’s dry, thirsty and bleak. On our farm, we live with drought daily, working with limited groundwater and learning to adjust a…
[Link] Split-row cover crop system good for corn
Craig Williams knows the value of cover crops and uses them whenever possible. He and his wife, Kim, farm near Oaktown in Knox County, Ind., and oper…
[Link] Agritech as driver of rural entrepreneurship
Agritech – a word often used as a substitute for new age innovations in agriculture – offers hope and optimism in catalyzing many unexplored model…
[Link] Persistent drought prompts USDA disaster declaration for 6 counties
The release of the July 8 U.S. Drought Monitor Map showed the data that the Minnesota ag community was expecting: Category level D2 — severe drough…
[Link] ‘Soil for Water’ Regenerative Agriculture Project Expands to Montana
Building on a successful peer-to-peer network of Texas ranchers who are implementing innovative grazing techniques to improve soil health and increase…
[Link] Vermeer reveals future tech haytools
From windrow-guided auto-steering to a robot bale collector, the company is going public with some innovative tools.
[Link] Lincolnshire agricultural college invests in robots to get young people into farming
The new equipment includes GPS field mapping and guidance systems, thermal drone technology, a seed drill and fertiliser spreader fitted with variable…
[Link] Multi-Cropping for Soil Health, Higher Profits
For this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by The Andersons, we chat with Ross Evelsizer of Iowa Resource Conservation and Develop…
[Link] Finding the right regen farming rotation
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With current grain and BPS prices, is it time to cash in while the going’s good? Or cash out on experimental post-BPS farming techniques befo…
