The annual InfoExpo, held during the 2011 Ag Media Summit in New Orleans, yielded lots of news and developments about equipment, crop protection and precision-ag products.
Equipment manufractures and makers of crop-protection and fertilizer products shared their latest news with No-Till Farmer during the recent 2011 InfoExpo, held during the Ag Media Summit in New Orleans.
Even as we just released our September issue of No-Till Farmer newsletter and are working on the October issue, we're forging ahead with big plans for the Fall issue of No-Till Farmer's Conservation Tillage Guide.
No-Till Farmer editors John Dobberstein and Darrell Bruggink are reporting the latest ag news from manufacturers on hand for the annual Ag Media Summit in New Orleans.
Moving away from Roundup Ready soybeans allows Carrol Wyss the opportunity to earn a few extra dollars while rotating chemistries in his corn-soybean rotation.
When the oppertunity presented itself, Carrol Wyss went after a new market to make a few extra dollars. What he also found was that the changes he would need to make to control weeds were probably better for his farm.
Beginning with limited irrigation acres or Western dryland regions, new corn hybrids that optimize available water could improve no-till yields by 15% to 25%.
As a no-tiller, you can do everything seemingly right to give your crop the best chance to hit maximum yields, but if Mother Nature doesn't cooperate, it can all go for naught.
The trend in fertilizer application today is to go larger to cover more acreage, provide more flexibility of applications and be more precise, according to manufacturers interviewed at the 2010 Farm Progress Show.
As you are likely aware by now, atrazine is being placed under another re-evaluation by the EPA after activists made claims the active ingredient is not safe. This unprecedented move came about 2 years after the EPA approved atrazine under a scheduled re-registration review.
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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Martin-Till, southern Indiana no-tiller Ray McCormick shows off the unique features of his Horsch Maestro 2430 planter. Meanwhile, 40 miles east of McCormick, Strip-Till Innovator Award recipient Chris Perkins shows how chains on his planter deliver ROI in more ways than one.
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