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Step outside on the Palmyra, Mich., farm with Jim and Jake Isley, and you’ll step into fields of conservation ideas turned into reality. The Isley family is a regional ASA Conservation Legacy Award Winner.
According to the report, there were eight-grain dust explosions in 2020, resulting in zero fatalities and nine injuries.
ResponsibleAg’s mission is to be an industry-led initiative committed to helping agribusinesses properly store and handle farm input supplies.
The ag sector has talked about the (broadly) unrealized potential for Big Data for years. Frankly, it’s been tiring. We’ve seen a lot of talk about its promise when the infrastructures are in place to deliver on it.
Switching part of your acres to no-till is as simple as just parking the tillage tractor, right? Maybe not. Here are a few considerations before trying no-till for the first time.
When farmland draws a premium, you’d expect the soil to be in good shape, right? More landowners are considering fertility clauses in their farm leases to ensure tenants don’t suck the soil dry.
With renewed focus on no-till and reduced tillage, how can you experience the greatest financial and positive environmental impact? Do you have to cut back on tillage every acre to maximize the benefits?
With enthusiasm from favorable market prices at a high, many farmers are wondering if it’s time to consider corn-on-corn or soybean-on-soybeans. Ken Ferrie says important to understand the agronomic challenges of each.
Get the latest information and expert advice on pest management and herbicide resistance, deposition and coverage in a webinar brought to you by Take Action and the Soy Checkoff.
Farm Journal wants to help you address your agronomic management and technology use this season with its 2018 Yield Tour program.
Here are the top five top agronomic tips from Bauer,
Mike Manning with Precision Crop Systems shares the biggest opportunities to increase profitability.
“These courses particularly appeal to ag retailers,” said Bruce Erickson, director for the Purdue Agronomy e-learning program.
New research aimed to learn the steps farmers expect from input suppliers and other sales and service representatives before they allow them back onto their operations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Instead of an in-person event, this year’s conference will be completely virtual. Because of the new format, its organizers have expanded the agenda to three days and to be of a national scope.
“This is about guiding the grower in the right direction,” says Worker Safety Lead, Lilly Reyes with GAR Bennett, LLC. “We want to reassure the grower and the employees that we will get through this together.”
In 2018 IDA issued 233 warning letters and 14 notices of fines. In 2019, there have been 62 warning letters and 98 notices of fines. Fines are pretty evenly split between commercial and private applicators.
Guilette describes farmers as the “ultimate problem solvers and solution finders.”
“It’s important to remember 2019 had excess rainfall and high humidity. So, it was a prime environment for a lot of diseases, and with the increase in disease, we have a lot of inoculum in the soil” says Randy Kool
ARA encourages users to register early to ensure enough time to complete the registration because all users must gain access to the clearinghouse once it is implemented on Jan. 6, 2020.
This is your opportunity to join the more than 13,500 Certified Crop Advisers (CCAs.)
Teams of two can focus on achieving objectives such as innovating better ways to see more customers or uncovering improvement areas in a specific part of the company.
The goal is to improve the long-term success of the agency’s Application Exclusion Zone (AEZ) requirements. The Agricultural Retailers Association supports these targeted revisions.
Yes, folks, you can trust this ol’ Tennessee woodsman’s wisdom. Simple little things like this can make a difference in just 15 minutes a week.
Defining sustainable agronomy includes three facets: economically viable, environmentally sound, and socially acceptable.
IFCA is hopeful they can effectively find ways to bring down the number of complaints to enable use of this herbicide technology in the future.
In defining agronomic practices: “There’s classic rock, soft rock, and then there’s hard rock. People like to associate with different parts. But overall, it’s still rock music,” says Lee Briese.
JW Lemons says sustainability isn’t defined by just one practice or concept.
The sea of shifting soybean kernels had risen to Jay Butterfield’s knees inside a tall grain bin on his Ohio farm.
“We strive to meet all three parts of what it means to be using sustainable agronomy,” says Orvin Bontrager, crop consultant with Servi-Tech.