With fertilizer prices continuing to rise and fall with energy prices, producers are looking for new ways to increase the efficiency of phosphorus and nitrogen applications on their farms...
Farmers attending this year’s Sunbelt Expo had the opportunity to hear about several new technologies during special technology update sessions sponsored by the Expo, Southern States Cooperative and Southeast Farm Presssister publication of Delta Farm Press...
The University of Georgia's Stanley Culpepper says farmers' aggressive resistance management strategies appear to be paying off....
During World War II, when sugar was rationed, bootleggers used the juice of sweet sorghum to make moonshine. Now researchers are studying ways to boost the plant's potential to brew not booze, but biofuel....
Polling shows that many Americans no longer understand agriculture in their own country. Most believe that family farming no longer exists and that the majority of crops are grown by faceless entities that they characterize as industrial farms. In fact, family farmers are the critical factor that make the nation’s number one industry the world leaders in production of safe and wholesome products, according to a new video, Farming for Generations, released this week by the National Corn Growers Association...
University of Missouri scientists have played a key role in developing new technology that takes the guesswork out of deciding how much nitrogen to apply to crops. The technology has the potential to keep money in farmers’ pockets and help protect the environment. With “on-the-go sensing,” optical sensors mounted in front of a tractor or fertilizer applicator measure the color and size of plants. An on-board computer uses this data to control the rate that fertilizer is released as the farmer drives through a field....
Weeds Information with Dr. Larry Steckel...
According to Bryan Young, Southern Illinois University weed scientist, weed management in corn requires a good foundation herbicide, rather than relying too heavily on glyphosate alone. ...
