In a recently concluded 3-year study at Michigan State University Extension, researchers weighed the functionality and marketability of harvesting corn stover in corn-on-corn and corn-on-soybeans rotations.
DEERE & CO. and The Climate Corp., a subsidiary of Monsanto Co., signed agreements for Deere to acquire the Precision Planting equipment business, and to enable exclusive, near real-time data connectivity between certain Deere equipment and the Climate FieldView platform.
Corn cobs could provide a future energy source, but farmers would have to receive a much higher price than previously thought to cover their costs and turn a profit, according to a Purdue University study.
The new CEO of the National Association of Conservation Districts is Jeff Eisenberg, who has previously represented ranchers and conservation organizations on natural resource issues and also served as an attorney for USDA.
Scientists have found that it might be more cost-effective, energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable to use corn stover for generating an energy-rich oil called bio-oil and for making biochar to enrich soils and sequester carbon.
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During the Sustainable Agriculture Summit in Minneapolis, Minn., Carrie Vollmer-Sanders, the president of Field to Market who also farms in Northeast Indiana and Northwest Ohio, shared why it is important for no-tillers and strip-tillers to share their knowledge with other farmers.
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