Even as combines roll, it’s not too early to start thinking about next season. We wrap up our Win the Furrow focus, looking at ‘the furrow.’ Agronomist Missy Bauer, of B&M Crop Consulting says when ...
As Indiana farmer Jason Wykoff tunes up his planter, checks fields and pores over nutrient and yield data, he is still wrestling with what will go into his in-furrow program. “So often in production ...
Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station researchers are steadily improving water conservation tactics. They can now grow rice with about half the irrigation water used in levee rice systems. Chris ...
New furrow opener design improves crop breeding by precisely placing seeds. Rotating V-shaped rollers create stable soil grooves, limiting seed drift & spacing inconsistencies. Simulations & tests ...
Furrow-irrigated rice has been gaining ground, increasing from less than 1% to 10% of total rice acreage in Arkansas in the past five years. A new handbook from the University of Arkansas System ...
No-till planting of sweet corn into a killed winter rye cover crop has the potential to provide soil health benefits such as reduced compaction, improved soil water holding capacity, reduced ...
A recent test has shown that drip irrigation is more efficient than furrow irrigation when growing sugar beets. In California, sugar beets are mostly grown only in the low-desert region of the ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) Temperatures have been below average for the month of April and so far, May. With May being quite a wet month, it’s not good news for crops. Portland has yet to meet its average ...
HILLSBORO, Oregon -- Many are celebrating Christmas in July with friends and family after COVID kept everyone apart last year and now the record summer heat could be putting a damper on this year's ...
Last month this series described planting potatoes at the Tallahassee Museum 1880s garden by Leon County’s Master Gardeners. Potato crops are planted in mid-February. In March, now that it is warming ...