Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Covering 40,000 acres a year with a sprayer is a big job. At Shawridge Farms, a large cash crop and commercial grain elevator operation located in Arthur, Ont., So how does one guy get over all those acres? Read More Covering 40,000 acres a year with a sprayer is a big job. He gets a lot of help from the.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

During a normal year, he typically harvests about 150 bushels per acre of corn. Last year, he averaged only 22 per acre. His soybean and wheat crops were also impacted. But there was one crop that suffered less. “It Sorghum] helps offset our risk,” he said. However, sorghum in the U.S. Unlike the U.S.,

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Identifying Opportunities and Planning Successful cover cropping starts with a strong crop plan and requires additional planning around cash-crop termination and no-till seeding methods. Flail mow and direct seed with a grain drill – This is the best method in a larger-scale commercial garden (1+ acre).

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Iowa farmers, for example, apply it on 87 percent of their fields at a rate of 149 pounds per acre. Annual crops take up only about half of the nitrogen applied, and the rest often ends up polluting groundwater in the form of nitrate. ” Mark Stokes has been using no-till cropping for 26 years.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested. Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. For every acre planted in winter cover, the conservation district would pay the farmers $50.

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The Equation

JUNE 5, 2023

Unhealthy soil can be the end of a civilization Not being able to grow grain because of unhealthy soils translated into not being able to feed armies. million acres have been declared salinity impaired in the Valley. If not addressed, the future economic impacts of salts on the Valley could exceed $3 billion per year.”

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

wheat production and supplies is improving the outlook for profitability among grain elevators that store wheat. Some 3 million acres of agricultural lands were in the storm’s path, including row crops like peanuts and cotton, dairy and poultry farms, aquaculture operations and more. A modest rebound in U.S. million to $370.9

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