How to Use ATVs to Increase Scouting and Soil Sampling Efficiency

“When I started soil sampling 38 years ago, I was walking and carrying a 5-gallon bucket with a clipboard and a hand-drawn map and soil probe to walk fields,” says Phil Cochran, owner of Cochran Agronomics, Inc., Paris, Ill. “Now we run two ATVs full-time from now through the end of June.

Stewardship Journey Pays Dividends For Minnesota Farmers

Sometimes finding the right path and balancing goals like cleaner water, healthier soil and business profitability can involve significant risk. In a low margin enterprise like farming, risk can be a deal-breaker and stifle innovation. Two farmers found a way around this conundrum.

Ducks Unlimited: Filling the Skies with Waterfowl Today, Tomorrow and Forever

Ducks Unlimited Inc. is the world's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving North America's continually disappearing waterfowl habitats. Established in 1937, Ducks Unlimited has conserved more than 14.5 million acres thanks to contributions from more than a million supporters across the continent. Guided by science and dedicated to program efficiency, DU works toward the vision of wetlands sufficient to fill the skies with waterfowl today, tomorrow and forever.

Macroeconomic Factors Cause Ethanol Market Downfall

COVID-19 swiftly took more drivers off the road, all while a price war unfolded in oil. The double black swans were too much for the ethanol and corn markets to bear, injecting elevated uncertainty into an already waning market.

Farmer Survives COVID-19, Hopes His Farm Will Too

Calving and planting season has been anything but typical for Matthew Raver and his family in Greensburg, Indiana.

Online Training: Growing Hemp From A to Z

In this one-hour online training, Certified Crop Advisor Bryan Parr educates farmers on the basics of how to grow hemp for grain or fiber. Click here to learn more or to register.

Hog Producer Responds to Closures: My Building Should Be Empty

Plunging sales and plant closures are all creating a crisis right now for the pork industry. Hogs are stacking up on farms with farmers scrambling to find places to process them as the value per hog plummets.

Join our $100 Ideas Club

Think you have an idea worth $100 – or even $200? Submit it here! Upon publication in Farm Journal, the Double Your Money winner receives $200. Other farmers featured receive $100 each.

Distillery Switches Production to Ethanol-Based Sanitizer

Some distilleries have approval to make hand sanitizer during the coronavirus pandemic. Journeyman’s Distillery in Three Oaks, Michigan is one of them.

AGWEB EXTRA

Find out what's happening across country on Crop Comments. Leave your own comment too!

Know someone who would enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to a friend!