AGRICULTURE & FARM NEWS
Modes to Managing Cotton Growth
Cotton is unique to many other row crops traditionally grown in the US. While cotton is ordinarily a perennial, it is commercially grown as an annual in the US. With its indeterminate nature, cotton continues [...]
Accomplishing More With Less – Hay Steamers
Steam. We use it to iron clothes, cook vegetables, and clean surfaces, and now there is a new machine enabling a farmer to use steam for baling hay, called the DewPoint 6110. The DewPoint 6110 [...]
Farm Satellite Imagery: Revealing Nozzle Problems
Ever heard the phrase “too little, too late”? Working in agriculture today, producers can’t afford for anything to be too little, or too late. There are too many variables leading up to harvest affecting your [...]
Corn Borer Control in a Bt World
Prior to the introduction of the Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) gene in corn, it was common to treat the vast majority of corn acres in this country for European and/or Southwestern Corn Borer each summer. In [...]
Know Your Water Holding Capacity
Soils vary in many different ways. They differ in texture, infiltration rates, tilth, permeability, depth, organic matter content, and water holding capacity - to name a few. Soils are made up of three main components: [...]
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