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John Deere introduces new compact wheel loader models
Offering operators increased productivity and significantly faster travel speeds, John Deere redesigned its K-Series compact wheel loader models with the introduction of the 244L and 324L compact wheel loaders.
A new Cornell-led study shows that Midwest agriculture is increasingly vulnerable to climate change because of the region’s reliance on growing rain-fed crops.
Farmers and chemical crop input suppliers will feel the impact of last fall’s wet weather and ongoing trade/tariff wars when they hit the fields this spring, according to the Northwest Farm Credit Services quarterly Crop Inputs Market Snapshot.
Commodity prices and farm income may have been down, but U.S. tractor and combine sales closed out 2018 stronger, according to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM).
With some USDA employees furloughed and offices closed, several regular statistical and market reports affecting hay and forage producers have been cancelled or delayed. Here’s an update on what we know.
Despite all my pretenses to the opposite, I wasn’t a real “farm kid” growing up. My parents brought home the bacon, but it didn’t come from the farm. I never milked a cow, but my brother told me to not have a cow when he got my goat. As a kid, I didn’t feed chickens, but I was prone to counting my eggs before they hatched and rarely had my ducks in a row. And, if you asked my mom, my room was always a pigsty.
Whether you want to grow more homegrown feedstuff without increasing acreage, improve soil structure, add organic matter into the ground, increase soil fertility or all the above – cover crops are an effective and quick way to achieve your forage goals.
“Have you ever gone to a company-sponsored producer meeting with one hand over your billfold and one hand over your checkbook, afraid that they [vitamin and mineral supplement companies] would try to squeeze one more dollar out of you?”
A system that uses electrical current to control weeds and is to be marketed as part of a suite of new Case IH precision farming technologies is the winner of a bronze medal in the Innovation Awards given by the SIMA organizers in advance of the 2019 show in Paris.
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