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17 Nov 2020
ANKNEY, Iowa (DTN) -- Prescriptive tillage is growing in popularity as farmers strive to boost agronomic, economic and environmental performance. Farmers can prescriptively vary the depth and intensity of tillage equipment on-the-go based on field and agronomic conditions, much like variable rate seeding. Case IH and John Deere offer the automated ...
17 Nov 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Winter wheat conditions improved slightly and the percentage of corn and soybeans remaining to be harvested moved to the single digits last week, according to the USDA NASS weekly Crop Progress report released on Monday. Corn harvest moved ahead 4 percentage points last week to reach 95% complete as of Sunday, Nov. 15, 8 percentage p...
16 Nov 2020
In this Equipment Roundup, DTN/Progressive Farmer looks at Salford's new HALO tillage line, updates to GSI's VersaLoop round tube chain conveyor and investments by CNH Industrial and John Deere. SALFORD BRINGS NEW-GENERATION TILLAGE TO MARKET Salford Group is releasing HALO, a next-generation tillage product line. HALO is a Salford tillage platform...
16 Nov 2020
By Kurt Lawton, Progressive Farmer Contributor When Mother Nature cooperates, variable-rate research proves soybean growers can plant 100,000 seeds per acre to grow 75,000 uniform plants for optimum yield. But, given spring and summer weather extremes, soil variables and aversion to risk, farmers are planting soybeans at varying flat rates -- from ...
16 Nov 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- How do you inspire a busy 10-crop farmer to focus on wheat? Tell him what his neighbor is yielding! That's what pushed Derek Friehe, from Moses Lake, Washington, to net the 2020 National Wheat Yield Contest's Bin Buster award for irrigated winter wheat, with a field of Limagrain Jet that hit 206.7 bushels per acre (bpa). "Yo...