Old work trucks are priceless links to our farming past.
Chad Bell harvested his two fields of wheat and once the straw is baled he will be planting a cover crop on these acres.
Despite the fluctuation in available funding, farmers are still encouraged to utilize the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
A phone call from a friend changed Debbie Ruff’s career trajectory 35 years ago, and she’s “still having fun” as ag literacy coordinator.
Soil tests are important tools for farmers to determine the limiting factors for crop production on their fields.
Farmers are invited to deepen their agronomic knowledge at Precision Planting’s free, full-day summer sessions: the Radicle Summit and Precision Technology Institute Agronomy Days.
Corn rootworm damage often goes unnoticed until it is too late. Know your pest pressure and protect your yield potential, advises Jim Henry.
In the first half of the growing season, the crops in Brad Zimmerman’s locale faced dry conditions early on to heavy rains in June. He looks at these weather swings as an opportunity to “make lemonade out of lemons” with one of his field trials.
I’m working with this grower, Wendell Good, that I love working with here in central Illinois. His passion is wheat, whereas a lot of people don’t care to plant wheat or harvest wheat in the middle of July when it’s 100 degrees outside. He loves wheat. I do, too.
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