Real Agriculture

JULY 5, 2023

How do you cover acres quickly during planting season with big equipment without causing compaction and compromising yield? Read More How do you cover acres quickly during planting season with big equipment without causing compaction and compromising yield? The brothers farm in Perth County, Ont.,

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Acre Tractor Yield Harvester 238

Real Agriculture

MAY 16, 2024

Across the province, acreage for the entire oilseed crop typically checks in around 40,000 acres, with about one third of the crop being planted in the fall, the rest being spring canola. Over the past five year years, however, winter canola has been gaining momentum in. Read More

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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.

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Harvester Harvest Harvesting Acre 302

Real Agriculture

JANUARY 12, 2024

The battle for acres is set to play out in just over three months. Crop rotation plays a key part of decision making on final acres for any crop, but perhaps most of all for pulses, as aphanomyces and root rot risk factor prominently in pea and lentil decisions. But price factors too, and Jon. Read More

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Crop Rotation Acre Crop Production 265

Real Agriculture

JULY 17, 2024

If refill times at seeding are a pet peeve, take a look at Vaderstad’s newest air cart offering, the PD 1350, capable of covering 200 acres of canola seeding in a single fill. That 1350 stands for bushels, and as Phil Korczak explains in this video from Ag in Motion this week, that capacity is spread.

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Acre Seeding Production Crop 221

Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Farmers Weekly Relay cropping winter wheat and soya beans in one season could be worth at least £605/ha (US$300/acre) more for a US farmer in Indiana compared with just growing mono soya beans in the same field.

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Crop Acre Crop Rotation 210

Western FarmPress

MARCH 26, 2024

Nearly 18 million acres were planted into cover crops in 2022 compared to 15.4 million acres as by the 2017.

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Acre Crop 119

Real Agriculture

JANUARY 24, 2024

Biologicals hold great promise for improving crop production. From increasing root activity, soil microbes, and nutrient availability to building plant resiliency to abiotic stresses — this emerging crop input segment is bursting with product choices. Read More Biologicals hold great promise for improving crop production.

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Acre Production Farming Farming 250

Real Agriculture

JULY 4, 2024

Big corn acres in the U.S. and dandy looking crops in the west have created a bit of a supply issue for markets, one that could be helped by some serious export demand. Read More Big corn acres in the U.S. Read More Big corn acres in the U.S. For this early July grain market update, we. Read More

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Grain Marketing Acre Crop 254

Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

No one likes snow in October, but it’s especially unwelcome when there is still crop in the field. For Ontario, however, so many thousands of acres of corn are now very wet and covered in snow, and. Read More No one likes snow in October, but it’s especially unwelcome when there is still crop in the field.

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Acre Harvester Harvest Harvesting 276

Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It comes from a policy report published on FarmDocDaily: Concentration of US Principal Crop Acres in Corn and Soybeans. The bottom line: 30% of harvested acres is devoted to corn, and another 30% to soybeans. A post on X (the site formerly known as Twitter) displayed this graph. This is industrial agriculture at a glance.

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Industrial Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture Acre 290

Real Agriculture

MAY 10, 2024

India is nearly half-way through a six-week election period, and the government there is making sure it stays in the citizens’ good graces. That, in part, may have driven the decision by India to further extend a dropped tariff on imported peas out to October. Chuck Penner, founder of Leftfield Commodity Research, says that India.

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Acre Grain Marketing Production 267

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 7, 2024

bushels per acre. bushels/acre, while John Kilbourne of Ontario finished third with a yield of 160.2 bushels/acre. Nick Suwyn from Michigan has topped the 2024 Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network wheat yield contest with 171.9 Jeffery Krohn, also of Michigan, took second place at 170.1 Read More

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Yield Acre Grain Production 293

AgriLife Today

APRIL 23, 2024

Texas Crop and Weather Report – April 23, 2024 Corn prices are down, and acres in Texas and across the U.S. Read More → The post Corn crop conditions improve as acres and prices decline appeared first on AgriLife Today. Mark Welch, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension grain marketing economist in the Texas.

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Acre Crop Grain Yield 81

Real Agriculture

JUNE 30, 2023

Strong plant stands can set a soybean crop up for big yields. In Ontario, typically one to four per cent of the soybean acres fail to establish adequate plant stands and. Read More Strong plant stands can set a soybean crop up for big yields. Read More Strong plant stands can set a soybean crop up for big yields.

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Seeding Yield Acre Crop 233

Real Agriculture

MAY 9, 2024

Across the province, the Ontario greenhouse vegetable industry grows tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers in 3,900 acres of greehhouse, producing 521 million kilograms of fresh vegetables with a farm gate value of more than $1.4 Red Sun Farms in Kingsville, Ont., is one of 170 greenhouse vegetable farms in Ontario. On this episode of Profitable.

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Greenhouse Farming Farming Acre 318

Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Recently launched in north Wales is almost 157 acres of mixed woodland just south of Abergele in Denbighshire. This has maturing conifer crops, mixed broadleaves with ancient woodland and good internal infrastructure. Farmers Weekly Woodlands are the focus this week, with the farmland market quiet in terms of new launches.

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Marketing Farmland Acre Crop 264

Food Politics

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

million (down 7% from 2017) Average size: 463 acres (up 5%) Total farmland: 880 million acres of farmland (down 2%), accounting for 39% of all U.S. Most of the data refer to industrial crops like corn and soybeans: feed for animals, fuel for automobiles. We should not be growing food crops to produce automobile fuel.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farmland Acre 288

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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.

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Harvester Harvest Harvesting Acre 182

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 12, 2024

Efficiency is everything when timeframes are tight and acres are many. Read More Efficiency is everything when timeframes are tight and acres are many. Read More Efficiency is everything when timeframes are tight and acres are many. Read More

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Fertilizer Acre Seeding Production 304

Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 18, 2024

High-capacity combines are finding a fit in edible bean fields as growers look to cover more soy, corn, wheat and edible acres with fewer machines, and also take advantage of their gentler grain handling capabilities. On this episode of RealAgriculture’s Edible Bean School, host Bernard Tobin rides along with Fred Van Osch of Van Osch.

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Harvester Harvest Harvesting Acre 302

Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It turns out that even Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson is mortal, and in this week’s podcast you’ll likely end up feeling a little sorry for Mr. Johnson, as his voice has fallen victim to the winter woes. Nonetheless, our intrepid host of Wheat Pete’s Word still has managed to record this episode and in it.

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Acre Production Crop 266

Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Farmers Weekly In autumn 2019 we didn’t drill a viable acre of winter crop due to the wet weather. With that in mind I try not to get caught out, so we started drilling on 20 September and drilled virtually every day the weather would let us.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Diversity can mean many things to many people and when it comes to a grower diversifying variety choices, the goal is to mitigate risk, push yields, and maximize profit on every acre.

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Yield Seeding Acre Farming 241

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It turns out a system that relies less on row crops isn’t just good for a time- and resource-strapped young farmer. It works as both a cover crop and forage for the cattle, and it’s helping Bedtka build up organic matter in his soil. Iowa farmers, for example, apply it on 87 percent of their fields at a rate of 149 pounds per acre.

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Crop Farming Farming Acre 128

Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Chris Hausman dipped a toe into the cover crop world and learned he could grow soybeans with no yield drag and no tillage, saving upward of $14 an acre — all while improving his soils. Here’s how it worked.

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Yield Crop Acre 122

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 20, 2024

Potassium deficiency can cost soybean growers as much as five to seven bushels per acre if the levels of the key nutrient sink below critical vales. Read More Potassium deficiency can cost soybean growers as much as five to seven bushels per acre if the levels of the key nutrient sink below critical vales.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The Between the Rows Crop tour predicts a 181 bushels-per-acre-average yield after 378 field checks.

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Crop Acre Yield 98

Western FarmPress

APRIL 30, 2024

Learn what factors could positively influence prices and the state's latest crop and weather report. Texas' soil moisture levels are steadily improving corn growing conditions, but prices remain low.

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Acre Yield Crop 111

Food Politics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Farm Action , an organization devoted to stopping corporate agrocultural monopolies and building fair competition in rural America, has issued a short report, Balancing the US Agricuiltural Trade Deficit with Higher Value Food Crops. million acres of higher value fruit, vegetables, and melons would be needed to generate $32.9B

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Farming Farming Farmland Poultry 249

Western FarmPress

APRIL 24, 2024

With favorable crop condition ratings, wheat and sorghum production is projected to be higher than 2023 -- up 120 bushels for wheat and 75 million bushels for sorghum.

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Acre Yield Crop Production 105

Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Three out of every 10 acres have been combined so far this fall.

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Harvester Harvest Harvesting Crop 119

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2024

million new acres (22% of all FY2023 acres) (see Figure 1), and nearly $171 million expended directly on climate-smart agriculture and forestry practices in CSP, with the additional $79 million of IRA funds allocated to CSP supporting technical assistance for all contracts signed.

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ProAg

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

From our industry partners at National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS) : In the formative days of our Republic, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “I have sometimes thought it might be well to establish an office of insurance for farms against the damage that may occur to them from storms, blights, insects, etc.” Why the tremendous growth?

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 10, 2024

At Agritechnica in Hanover, Germany, Kuhn rolled out KARL — an autonomous 175 hp robot prototype capable of performing field work in broad acre production. At Agritechnica in Hanover, Germany, Kuhn rolled out KARL — an autonomous 175 hp robot prototype capable of performing field work in broad acre production. Read More

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Agricultural equipment Manufacturing Acre Production 240

Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The increase in domestic soybean demand means more money could come back to the farmer and puts pressure on the industry to find the proper balance of protein crops.

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Acre Grain Crop 116

Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 27, 2023

From drought to an October hailstorm, producers discuss how the weather has wreaked havoc on their cotton crop. "I I just wish we could have harvested what we worked so hard to grow.”

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