Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the next general signup for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) will begin on March 14, 2011, and continue through April 15, 2011.
Demand for U.S. farmland has jumped to a five-year high, spurred on by a profitable grain market and a boost in buyer interest from both farm operators and land investors.
Source: By Don Comis, USDA Agricultural Research Service
Storing just one inch of water in an acre of soil is worth $25 to $30 per acre, and that fact gets the attention of Central Great Plains farmers served by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers.
University of Minnesota Extension will host the seventh annual Conservation Tillage Conference and tradeshow February 9-10 at Bigwood Event Center, 921 Western Avenue, Fergus Falls, Minn.
For the second consecutive year, the readers of No-Till Farmer (www.No-TillFarmer.com) have voted the Keeton Seed Firmer the best product in their operations, making the no-till attachment the “2010 No-Till Product Of The Year.”
U.S. corn supplies later this year will be about 6.5 percent smaller than previously forecast amid strong export and ethanol demand and a disappointing harvest last year, analysts say.
We're just a week away from the opening day of the 19th annual National No-Tillage Conference in Cincinnati, so we thought we'd make this edition of E-Tip a special issue.
Using no-till and corn-soybean rotation practices in farm fields can significantly reduce field emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, according to a Purdue University study.
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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Martin-Till, Smithville, Ga., strip-tiller and cover cropper Alex Harrell shares the main takeaway from his record-breaking 218-bushel soybean yield.
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