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Soybean School: Variety choice and population keys to lodging prevention

Real Agriculture

When soybean plants lodge, bad things happen. “But when they start to get close to the ground, and really lean over, Read More When soybean plants lodge, bad things happen. . “But when they start to get close to the ground, and really lean over, Read More When soybean plants lodge, bad things happen.

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The Agronomists, Ep 155: Plant growth regulators with Jeremy Boychyn and Marijke Vanderlaan 

Real Agriculture

A plant growth regulator (PGR) can play a key role in helping growers manage the impact of lodging in spring and winter wheat crops. 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. Read More

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The Business Behind the Farm Visit

Modern Farmer

This legislation and subsequent entity became the framework for land use protections in Oregon and, over the last 50 years, has protected much of Oregon’s fertile farmland (as well as forest land and conservation land) by labeling it as “exclusive farm use.” What is a fertilized egg? Jones says it’s an opportunity for connection. “We

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SEEN IN SOUTH AFRICA

The Lunatic Farmer

Of course, I’m always going to speak so my hosts take care of meals, lodging, tickets, etc. This satisfied all my criteria for acceptable water-based sewage systems: leveraging the fertility, keeping it out of the ground water, and a portable distribution system. Like chemical fertilizer instead of compost.

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Precision Ag News 1/10

Agwired

Crop Nutrition Week returns February 5-9 with more experts, more insights, more fertilizer management strategies and more prizes to win. 26-29 at The Lodge at Gulf State Park in Gulf Shores, Alabama. The Alabama Cooperative Extension System is hosting the second annual Spray Drone End-User Conference Feb.

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The U.S.-Mexico tortilla war

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Unable to muscle Mexico City into reversing course, the US trade representative, Katherine Tai, last August lodged a formal complaint with the secretariat of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). It alleges that Mexico’s decree constitutes a trade violation that infringes on the superseding rights of US farmers and biotechnology companies.

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The Solution to Water Woes Could Lie With Beavers

Modern Farmer

Many farms and feedlots have runoff, whether this is excess manure, pesticides and herbicides or fertilizers such as phosphorus and nitrogen, both implicated in climate change. Six more beavers were released, which went on to build their own dams and lodges. Beaver ponds lessen the concentration of such pollutants, says Boucher.

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