Farmers have several options for managing residue: Fire, flood and tillage, or some combination of the three. Use of each depends on what the production system used in the current season, the weather after harvest and what crop a...
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Please join this series of webinars on September 7, 14 and 21 at 12:30 p.m. for an update on conservation easements and their potential impact on land disposition (e.g. estate planning and farm succession decisions). Robert...
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Efforts to put digital technologies and site-specific crop management practices...
New varieties, modern technology, disease and weed management, as well as fertilizer requirements and economics are on the agenda for the 2022 Clemson Extension Peanut Field Day Sept. 8 at the Edisto Research and Education Center (REC) in Blackville,...
Scotty Raines didn’t grow up on a farm, but his father kept a large garden at home. His mother, a beautician, had a beauty shop behind their house. So Scotty began his agrarian career by selling produce from the...
Betty Allen Farms in Latta, South Carolina, has been in Keith Allen’s family for nearly 200 proverbial lean and fat years. Growing from a modest holding in 1837 to 3800 acres today, the farm has experienced everything from near...
Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever are proud to announce BASF Agricultural Solutions as the organization’s newest national sponsor in the precision agriculture and conservation sector. The organizations are poised to deliver new on-farm sustainability program in the Texas Panhandle.
Collaborating...
Texas A&M continues to lead in preparing agriculture teachers amidst shortage
By Blair Fannin •
Agriculture teachers are in high demand as a number of contributing factors are making it difficult to fill positions in classrooms across Texas and abroad, according...
There’s still time to apply to the Missouri Century Farm Program. Deadline is May 1.
If your farm has been in your family since Dec. 31, 1922, you can apply to have it recognized as a Missouri Century Farm.
To qualify, the...
By Will Clark •
Fast facts:
Ninth annual Mid-South Conference set for June 10 in Memphis
Six continuing education hours including one hour of ethics will be provided
Register online at https://bit.ly/3rSvzAd
Early bird registration deadline May 22
Early bird...
By Allison Floyd •
UGA horticulture scientist Ye Juliet Chu is the latest peanut researcher in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences to produce three breeding lines from peanut’s wild relatives. (Submitted photo)
Using proven production practices to fight disease in...
There was good news and bad news at the 6th Annual South Carolina Ag Outlook Conference. The good news: sale prices for commodities are trending up. Unfortunately, so are the costs associated with producing them.
Walt Morgan, crop insurance agent...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Peanuts again proved to be a popular, if somewhat niche, investment for Arkansas growers in 2021.
Andy Vangilder, agriculture and natural resources Extension educator for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, said that as...
Alabama producers can brush up on best management practices and prepare for the upcoming growing seasons at the 2022 Alabama Row Crops Short Course. The course will be held Tuesday, Jan. 18, and Wednesday, Jan. 19, at the Embassy...
The 2021 Peanut Variety Trial preliminary yield data is now available on the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station Official Variety Trials website (https://www.mafes.msstate.edu/variety-trials/includes/crops/peanuts.asp).
The MAFES Official Variety Trials examine yield as well as other data such as maturity date,...
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