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Purdue University is launching ISOBlue, an open-source project that aims to provide farmers with easy access to agriculture data. Aiming to free farmers from vendor-controlled data, the product provides information, via smartphone, by the industry-standard ISOBUS port located on tractors, harvesters and equipment.
Few farming operations invite as many different opportunities for injury or fatality as a silage program.
Silage-related tragedies know no age boundary, as workers and bystanders of all ages have been injured or killed during silage harvest and feedout.
Pivotal Fencing Systems introduces the Wand Gate, which allows producers to cross-fence circular pivot fields and pastures and solves many of the problems associated with cross-fencing circular pivots.
It’s the headline no one wants to read, the hospital visit no one wants to make, the funeral no one wants to attend.
This silage season, will you pack the silage pile or will the pile pack you? The choice is yours. You’re in control.
Grasshoppers are becoming a problem on some farmland in areas of the Lone Star State, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert. The hoppers are now winged and are moving into crops and orchards, said Allen Knutson, an entomologist at the extension service in Dallas.
Farmers enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) may request to hay certain acreage, according to information from the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA). The earliest date CRP acreages can be hayed in Aug. 2, says Brad Pfaff, executive director of the Wisconsin FSA. Managed grazing of acreage is also allowed under certain rules.
Planning ahead for your silage crop pays off when you strive for efficiency and quality.
DuPont Pioneer senior nutritionist and veterinarian Bill Seglar offers tips for timely harvesting to maintain – or improve – your corn silage operation.
A Clackamass, Oregon-based company has created a tool to help farmers better mend their fences. Warn Industries has released PullzAll, an electric hand-held tool that can lift or pull up to 1,000 pounds at the push of a button.
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