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You can’t manage what you don’t measure, and if you’re not measuring grain loss out the back of the combine, you could be losing two, four and even 10 bushels an acre on the harvest pass. Recognizing that both header loss and combine loss contribute to lower yield and volunteer issues for the next season, Read More
Department of Agriculture’s September supply/demand report on Tuesday. The USDA boosted its harvested area for corn by 774 thousand acres to 87.1 million acres, resulting in a U.S. Markets came under pressure following the release of the U.S. corn production estimate of 15.1 The average corn yield for.
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.” The report’s 13 authors identified the resource needs of key species that live among the state’s approximately 500,000 acres of rice fields, including snakes, birds, and fish.
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planted nearly 50 million acres of wheat for the 2023 harvest, the largest acreage since 2016. That year’s winter wheat crop, which accounted for an average of 73% of total wheat acres, was the first crop planted after the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine sent wheat prices soaring. million acres.
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His 2,500-acre family farm is patchwork across 40 miles of land the family owns and leases, and grows organic corn, soy, wheat and specialty crops such as beans and peas. Regenerative agriculture in practice looks different depending on the unique situation of the farm, and so does the funding for it. One of four branches of the MAD!
million acres of higher value fruit, vegetables, and melons would be needed to generate $32.9B million acres of higher value fruit, vegetables, and melons would be needed to generate $32.9B This could be accomplished by approximately doubling the amount of land currently harvested for these crops. of US farmland. of US farmland.
Marys, Ohio, a lake polluted by high levels of agricultural runoff, published a study that quantified the concentration of microcystins, produced by cyanobacteria, in air samples. Due to this agricultural runoff, the Salton Sea is hypereutrophic, a term scientists use to describe water bodies that contain excessive nutrients.
When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows of corn you see in much of rural North America. Kotutwa Johnson with a harvested ear of Hopi white corn. His harvest looks unique, too.
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harvested an estimated 340,000 acres of sweet corn – or just 0.5% of the area harvested for feed grain corn. Figure 1 shows the USDA’s NASS acreage estimates since 2016, which capture a notable decline of 138,000 acres, or 29%. Sweet Corn Acres, 2016-2022. In Alaska, 14 farms raised a total of three acres.
state to complete soybean harvest in 2023. USDA data reveals the state’s soybean growers finished harvesting their crop the week ending November 5. Read more on soybean harvest in Louisiana here. The post Louisiana Completes Soybean Harvest, Battles Exceptional Drought appeared first on ProAg.
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