S&W Seed Co. and ADAMA announced their intent to collaborate on the development of a new sorghum herbicide-tolerant system to bring innovation to sorghum growers and improve weed control and yields. 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced a new pilot program that enables farmers in the Prairie Pothole region to receive payments for planting cover crops on their land for three to five years. The new Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Soil Health and Income Protection Program (SHIPP) pilot is available to producers in Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota.

In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Mfg., we caught up with Gaston, Indiana, no-tiller Jason Mauck by phone and he shared some details about how his ever-evolving Constant Canopy system works and some of the experiments he’s been implementing to utilize the abundant manure generated by the 12,000 hogs in his operation.

Drift Reduction Technology Corporation, a newly formed company focusing exclusively on improving the safety and accuracy of how crop protection products are applied, introduces a unique spray boom section recirculation system, the SRV2 System. The SRV2 System is easily retrofittable to any new or used field sprayer.

With the recent precipitation and snowfall some wheat fields in central and southern Kansas have started to show initial levels of spring greenup, and might be starting to develop spring tillers. Thus, now is a good time to start planning for topdressing nitrogen — especially for those wheat fields that emerged last fall, says Kansas State University Extension.

University of Nebraska discussed the results of a project to identify the impact that location, variety selection, irrigation, tillage and fertility programs have on yellow field pea protein content in Nebraska.