Real Agriculture

MAY 28, 2024

But growers have plenty of management decisions to consider to effectively use a PGR to reduce lodging, increase harvestability and protect and increase grain yield. But growers have plenty of management decisions to consider to effectively use a PGR to reduce lodging, increase harvestability and protect and increase grain yield.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Since the beginning of the year, the harvest price of major crops traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Intercontinental Exchange have fallen by an average of 21% while total production costs remain near record levels. Estimated 2024 net farm income for U.S. agriculture is projected to be down $55.61

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

During a normal year, he typically harvests about 150 bushels per acre of corn. It doesn’t take a whole lot of rain to make a good yield for the sorghum crop,” said Rendel, who plants about 1,000 acres of grain sorghum each year on his 5,000-acre farm. “It Nobody likes it, though, because it’s itchy at harvest time.” (The

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The growing list of N-OVATOR partners includes major consumer packaged goods companies, ingredient suppliers, spirit producers and grain buyers who are working to improve the sustainability of their agricultural supply chains. In total, the growers in this insetting partnership replaced over 10 million pounds of synthetic fertilizer.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

has rebounded after last year’s small harvest, and an export ban on white rice in India may mean new business for U.S. Here is a summary of the latest report: Grains, Farm Supply & Biofuels Historically low water levels on the Mississippi River are limiting grain movement heading into peak fall harvest season.

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

As discussions around sustainably grown grain become more prominent, it raises the question, “What qualifies it as sustainably grown?” It’s a question that has multiple answers since the current sustainable grain market is segmented, with multiple programs initiating their own certification requirements.

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Agwired

AUGUST 2, 2024

If the data review justifies any changes, NASS will publish updated planted and harvested acreage estimates in the Aug. As harvest season approaches, the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) is encouraging farmers to prepare by filling propane tanks early. 12, 2024, report.

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Food Tank

JULY 20, 2024

Irungu tells Food Tank that Ustawi Afrika teaches rainwater harvesting, construction of earthen pot water reservoirs, sustainable agriculture techniques, solar drip irrigation and production of a nutrient-rich material called humusoil.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

The timing of winter cover crops can be difficult in the garden because of the crop diversity growing into the fall, each with different end-harvest dates. Find the low hanging fruit – Beds which are relatively clean and bare after harvest require little planning and are ready to seed. tomatoes, corn, pumpkins, or peas).

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Agwired

JULY 19, 2023

For small grain and canola producers, consistency and efficiency are keys to a successful harvest. Precision Planting , most known for premier planter upgrades, launched a new product for the air seeder and fertilizer market.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. Corn requires lots of nitrogen, and it’s by far the most commonly used fertilizer in the United States. Southeastern Minnesota’s Olmsted County is a microcosm of agriculture’s dependence on nitrogen fertilizer.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Single axle grain carts and large combines are the worst offenders, but manure tankers and larger tractors also easily exceed 10 tons/axle. Unloading combines on headlands and/or more frequently can help if fields are wet during harvest. Grain carts run in the previous track made by the combine.

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UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 28, 2024

The first question to ask is how much nitrogen can your soil supply to the crop without adding any N fertilizer? This is commonly measured as pounds of nitrogen applied per bushel of grain harvested. In Figure 1, the cost of pound number 139 of nitrogen equals the revenue from the grain it produces.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The vineyards are weeded only using hoes, never herbicides, and fertilized with manure. Kernza® is a deeply rooted perennial grain harvested from intermediate wheatgrass and provided to the breweries by A-Frame Farm in Minnesota. “By Patagonia tasked each brewery to create a new beer made with Kernza ®.

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Sustainable Harvest International

OCTOBER 15, 2021

As a child, she and her siblings accompanied their father as he planted and harvested corn and beans. It is important for these women to take charge of local agricultural production and the well-being of their families, especially given the extended absence of male family members during the annual cane harvest.

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

We simply don’t have the equipment, storage and harvest capacity, labor, seed access, materials, and so on. We ordered the bulk of our supplies last year, before the current war, and aren’t facing a fraction of the trouble larger farms that are now sourcing their increasingly tight fertilizer or herbicide supplies.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 5, 2023

In farming, input costs typically include items like seeds, fertilizer, feed, and more. For example, grain operators may find post-harvest as the most accurate time, while cow-calf operations may choose when calves are born. Updating will be much faster than starting from scratch.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The biosolids created as sewage breaks down can be used as fertilizer on farmland, a practice that the Environmental Protection Agency still touts as “beneficial,” even though spreading these highly toxic chemicals across farmland allows the compounds to leach into the groundwater, contaminate crops grown on the land, and affect grazing animals.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Basements and garages have long been fertile ground for innovation, with a host of well-known companies including Apple, Amazon and Harley-Davidson tracing back to humble residential roots. But the constant repetition of bending down to plant, weed and set up irrigation and looking up to prune trees and harvest fruit became taxing, she says.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

However, the topsoil is powerless to counteract the acidifying effect of ammonia-based fertilizers. ERW companies collect the rock powder, sometimes milling it further to reduce the grain size. While these Midwest conditions may sound ideal for farming, years of tilling and heavy fertilizer use have taken their toll.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some carbon accumulates in the plant as it grows and ends up as crop residue and root biomass that decays after harvest. Another portion of carbon is removed when the grain is harvested. It’s the tiny input from fertilizer and seed. An average corn crop in Iowa is pulling in around 30,000 lbs. of carbon per acre annually.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They ate grains that couldn’t be sold.” Photos courtesy of Wendy Johnson) The sheep were getting sick from eating too much grain, so Johnson worked to reestablish a natural savanna, a mixed woodland and grassland ecosystem that had once been prevalent on Iowa’s landscape but was destroyed by grazing and row crops. Johnson laughs.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome. Photo submitted.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Saskatchewan based start-up is deploying a combination of cameras and machine learning to automate and dramatically reduce the time it takes to grade a sample of grain. Ground Truth Ag has developed a machine with a vision detection model that can assess around 50 different grading factors for Canada Western red spring wheat, as.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

Anyone who’s spent time in Mexico can report firsthand on the country’s deep reverence for corn, that infinitely versatile and nutritive grain that forms the base of the country’s daily bread, the tortilla, as well as a multitude of other traditional foods. A kaleidoscope of native corn varieties, plus colorful beans in a range of shades.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 28, 2024

This means you'll waste less time, money, and resources on things that don't contribute much value or might even be detrimental to your farm's growth (like using expensive fertilizers when cheaper ones work just as well). Plant a cover crop in the off-season between vegetable or fruit crops to suppress weeds, pests, and erosion.

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UnderstandingAg

JULY 31, 2023

A summer-winter mix is a great option when breaking new ground which has been fallow and non-irrigated, building soil health and fertility for the next growing season. When the summer crop is harvested and winter kills, the winter species remain. However, cold hardy cereal grains (i.e.,

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

This approach is gaining popularity due to increasing fertilizer and pesticide costs, fragile ecosystems that provide essential water and air quality services, and increased attention for local and regional food systems. Alternative Proteins Mattia Marinello, farm owner and operator, collects snails for harvest.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

MARCH 25, 2024

cing duties, planting schedules, and harvest windows. That does not include the change in variable rate land or equipment loans or the actual increase in goods and inputs we are buying, such as fertilizer, chemicals, fuel, labor, freight, parts, insurance, and the list could go on. They’re the definition of farm-raised boys.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

On one of the plots, Tim and Doug planted a standard mix using cereals only—a barley and oats mix—and added fertilizer to help with tonnage. On the next plot, they used less fertilizer but planted five crop varieties. Many cattle ranchers were forced to sell animals and import hay, while grain farmers suffered major crop losses. “We

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Farmbrite

MARCH 2, 2023

Agricultural technicians must have strong math skills to test soil composition, make charts and graphs that show results of tests, calculate amounts needed for fertilizer applications, and record data from laboratory tests in databases or tables. This requires knowledge about chemistry and biology.

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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. As a kid from rural Iowa, I have joked about growing up with herbicide for breakfast, pesticide for lunch, and fertilizer for supper.

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DTN

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Farmers who will be ready to sell their corn and soybean crops at the start of the program are already using and tracking sustainable practices for the 2024 harvest. A third party, such as a grain marketer can help source sustainable grains. EcoField data can also be modeled to evaluate farm emissions delineated by their origin.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

He planted wheat and other grains directly into the meadows and relied solely on rainfall for much of his acreage. He was specifically denied coverage for harvested crops grown in the grasslands. Just over a decade ago, he began converting his 11,000-acre farm to perennial native grassland to rebuild the health of his soil.

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Agwired

AUGUST 16, 2023

As harvest begins across the country, the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) reminds farmers about the importance of taking the appropriate precautions to ensure treated seed does not enter the grain supply. Narrow operating windows make maximizing productivity essential during planting and harvest, regardless of farm size.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

From 2014 to 2021, Minnesota farmer James Wolf raised organic soybeans, corn and wheat, selling the grains to farmers across the midwest, both for seed and animal feed. Selling organic grain allowed Wolf to make more money than selling conventional grain—a lot more money. How much did you harvest? How much did you plant?

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In 2022, Iowa farmers harvested 12.4 In Iowa, unconventional farming—growing crops aside from industrial grain—ranges from soybeans grown and made into tofu near Iowa City to an environmentally-minded O’Brien County farmer who went organic decades ago. You have this balance of grains to special vegetables.

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