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Calculate Soybean Seeding Rates, Input Breakeven with Mobile App

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:23:00 +0000

With soybean planting just around the corner for farmers, now is a great time to download and delve into the Extreme Beans app. The app not only offers great information from a study from multiple universities about soybean management practices, it has two calculators to help you determine what's best for your farm.

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What Do You Want to Tell Consumers About Agriculture?

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:50:00 +0000

As Earth Day 2013 draws near, conservation is perhaps more in the forefront of everyone’s mind. However, we in agriculture know that farmers do their best to conserve EVERY day, not just on April 22 every year.

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32 Apps to Help You Farm

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:44:00 +0000

If you scout, plant seeds, chart field boundaries, chart soil types, manage applications or manage your books, these days there is an app for just about any farm operation you do.

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Emerging Opportunities in Rural America, Importance of Farm Bill: #askUSDA your questions

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 02:51:00 +0000

Pull up that Twitter account and get your questions ready. On Monday, Dec. 17, 2:30 p.m. (Central time) Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will host a live Virtual Office Hours session on Twitter to answer questions on the important role of rural America to the national and global economy, increasing agricultural opportunities in U.S. communities, and the importance of passing a five-year Farm Bill.

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Check out Extreme Beans: The Website

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:37:00 +0000

You've read the extreme beans insert, and hopefully you've downloaded the app. Now you can read all the information online, too!

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Give #foodthanks This Thanksgiving and Holiday Season

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:52:00 +0000

Thanksgiving is upon us, and, like every year, there's much to be thankful for. Sure, Mother Nature probably isn't high on your list, but you know who should be? Farmers. It's time to take to Twitter, folks, and give some #foodthanks to those in agriculture for doing their part to provide us with the items we purchase at the grocery store, the dinner on our tables, the snacks we pack for our kids.

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Watch The Food Dialogues: New York Live; Event Covers Biotechnology, Anitbiotics, Food Choices

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:51:00 +0000

For most farmers, growing crops and raising cattle isn’t just a job. It’s a way of life. It’s a passion. You take it seriously, and you want others to take it seriously, too. More and more these days, farmers are falling under the microscope for their practices. Whether it’s using GMOs, the way you house your livestock, the feed you use, consumers around the U.S. are watching what you’re doing. Their main concern: food safety.

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Extreme Beans: The App

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:10:00 +0000

Access valuable research information, plus two calculators to help you determine which inputs get you the most bang for your buck and which seeding rates are optimal for your highest return.

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New App Calculates N Rates

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:17:00 +0000

I'm an app junkie. If there's an app to help do a job, entertain me or educate me, I'll download it (as long as it's free, although I've actually paid for a few apps, too). It's amazing what's out there to use on your smart phone, so it's time to take advantage of those tools and let your phone use its brain a bit!

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Let's Get Digital: Stay Heat-Safe with Smartphone App

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:27:00 +0000

There's no secret: It's hot out! There have been several heat waves crossing the Corn Belt this summer. We're starting one in Minnesota right now. Ninety-plus-degree temps make for not only uncomfortable working situations, but unsafe. We know there is LOTS to do in the field and outside each day for farmers. But, be sure to take the time to drink water, rest and seek shade when the heat index soars. You'll obviously be more efficient if you rest now and then than if you suffer from a heat illness and end up inside on the couch for the day.

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#askUSDA Your Questions During Virtual Office Hours

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:52:00 +0000

Tomorrow is the time to stretch your digital legs and participate in USDA's Virtual Office Hours chat on Twitter. Discussion will focus on the administration's efforts to create a solid rural America that's through support of broadband, education medical and water quality projects.

Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Doug O'Brien will host the session and will also discuss USDA efforts to provide homeownership opportunities to limited-income rural residents and help them refinance their homes to take advantage of low interest rates.

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Watered Down: Why is Water Important to YOU?

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:40:00 +0000

We use water in some form every day. To bathe, to drink, to play, not to mention grow crops. Being involved in agriculture, we know clean water is of utmost importance, and that farmers are certainly doing their part to keep ground water clean.

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