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Conventional tillage involves disking, plowing and other methods of tilling up crop residue left behind after harvest. Here’s what’s working for farmers who still practice conventional-tillage methods.
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    Keep Safety in Mind this Planting Season

    Farmers across the Midwest are off to an early start this planting season. Spring is typically the busiest time of the year for farmers, and when rushing to take advantage of ideal planting conditions, it can be easy to neglect simple steps for staying safe and healthy while in the field. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics an average of 700 deaths can be attributed to farm work injuries each year and an additional 120,000 agricultural workers sustain disabling injuries from work-related accidents. Many of these accidents occur during the spring planting season....More
  • Apr. 10, 2012
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    Strip-till Improves Soybean Yield

    Crop yield can be improved by ensuring adequate nutrient availability. But how should you place the fertilizer and what cropping system gives the best yields? Research conducted by University of Illinois Assistant Professor of Crop Sciences Fabián Fernández, Professor of Crop Sciences Emerson Nafziger and graduate student Bhupinder Farmaha looked at how tillage, and phosphorus and potassium placement and rates, affected the distribution of soybean roots and the levels of water and nutrients in the soil....More
  • Mar. 1, 2012
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    Think Different: New Knowledge Opens The Mind

    My passion as a news and technology junkie has helped my agricultural journalism career immensely. And one fun component of that curiosity and passion is to ask farmers what's new in order to learn their passions....More
  • Mar. 1, 2012
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    New Ways to Evaluate Soil

    Soil quality is the most important base layer for all farm production decisions. That includes decisions about yield goals, plant populations, fertility programs and hybrid genetics, says Clay Mitchell, a Harvard-educated corn and soybean grower, futurist and new technology guru from Buckingham, IA....More
  • Mar. 1, 2012
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    Change Mindset, Change Tillage | Move to Strip-till Saves Fuel, Equipment, Time

    Six years ago, brothers Tom and Jim Wagner, Primghar, IA, made a decision that changed their farming lives – and they’ve never looked back. The corn and soybean producers had shared equipment with a neighbor, using his tractor and ripper in exchange for planting his crops. When the neighbor opted for an off-farm job, he rented his land to the Wagners. He auctioned off his big tractors and tillage equipment and, as Tom and Jim weighed the possibility of taking on more land, they took a hard look at their own equipment situation....More
  • Feb. 15, 2012
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    The Chesapeake Impact | Lawsuit Between EPA and Farm Bureau Could Have Broad Consequences

    The water quality fight simmering in the Chesapeake Bay region could drastically impact agricultural land use from Virginia to Montana by the time the legal battle is over....More
  • Feb. 8, 2012
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    2012 Conservation Legacy Award South Region Winner: Bryant Farms

    Cullen Bryant, of Bryant Farms, Dillon, SC, explains his conservation efforts. The South Carolina farm pursues both economic and environmental sustainability....More
  • Feb. 3, 2012
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    Technology to Track | Telematics, Crop Sensing are the Next Big Precision-Ag Tools.

    In the world of precision ag, two technologies are the next big thing, says Matt Darr, Iowa State University ag engineer. They aren’t newly developed technologies, but they are the next big wave in agriculture....More
  • Feb. 3, 2012
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    Cover Crop Starter | Great Resources Offer Help with Valuable Practice

    A list of cover crop benefits came easily for more than 50 farmers at the Iowa Crop Advantage workshop: erosion control, weed control, improved soil organic matter, nutrient retention, better water infiltration and reduced nitrogen losses....More
  • Feb. 1, 2012
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    Crop Whisperers | “We used to waste more water than we use now to grow a crop,” says one moisture-monitor user

    Driving with a broken fuel gauge isn’t just inconvenient, it’s risky. So most logical drivers would keep the tank full for fear of running out of fuel at the most inopportune times – or better yet, fix the fuel gauge. The blind hope required to drive with a malfunctioning gauge is exactly how Nick Lammers describes most folks’ approach to moisture management....More
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