Cover crop roller-crimpers have several advantages over mowing, in that fewer trips are required to suppress the cover crop, less energy is used, residues persist longer and the residue is neatly laid in one direction, facilitating planting.

With ever-rising farm machinery costs, the squeeze is certainly on farmers to come up with new ways to cut their investment in tractors, implements and combines.

Now that herbicides containing alternative herbicide sites (modes) of action are being mixed with glyphosate and a greater diversity of herbicide resistant crops are being grown, proper sprayer cleanout and knowing the type of herbicide resistant crop planted in a specific field is very important.

Building on many of the popular features of its current 4930 self-propelled sprayer, John Deere introduces the 4940 Sprayer as its most advanced applicator for the 2011-2012 season.

An item often overlooked by the first-time no-till wheat grower is spreading residue at harvest.

Variable-rate seeding is a relatively new practice that is fairly easy to adopt with today’s precision farming technology.

Farmers using a cover-crop seeder developed by Penn State agricultural scientists may eventually need only a single trip across the field to accomplish what takes most farmers three passes and several pieces of equipment to do.

Thurston Manufacturing Co., producer of Blu-Jet fertilizer application and tillage equipment, is working with the American Farmer television series and will be featured in an upcoming episode.