John Dobberstein is the Senior Editor of No-Till Farmer, Strip-Till Farmer, and Cover Crop Strategies. He previously covered agriculture for the Tulsa World and worked for daily newspapers in Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Joseph, Mich. This is John's second stint with Lessiter Media, the previous lasting almost 13 years.
The USDA National Proving Grounds Network for AgTech will, according to the agency, “thoroughly test and validate both existing and emerging tools under real-world production conditions,” to provide farmers and ranchers with “trusted, practical insights” they can rely on to make product decisions.
Termination letters claim that, according to NYFC, “most of the awards did little to improve land access” and there was “excessive spending on outreach and technical assistance.”
Trump administration officials tout progress on farm reforms, but American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall says shorter-term solutions are needed to fix "terrible imbalance" between prices and inputs costs.
The lawsuits come at a time when the U.S. Department of Justice and USDA promised scrutiny of fertilizer monopolies, and as security problems in the Strait of Hormuz near Iran has led to an increasing in fertilizer prices.
Production will be phased out at Syngenta’s Huddersfield, U.K., site, the company’s only manufacturing facility for the active ingredient globally. A small scale, multi-product production unit at the site will also close.
Environmental Tillage Systems (ETS) recently announced the launch of a combination liquid and dry fertilizer system for the SoilWarrior 4500, giving farmers flexibility to place nutrients with greater precision, efficiency and control. In this video,
CJ Parker from Case IH breaks down the key features of the Nutri-Tiller 1000, the company’s new strip-till unit, which was on display for the first time at Commodity Classic in San Antonio, Texas.
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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Yetter Farm Equipment, Allen Dornacker shares the benefits of using drywall in his compost mix in West Bend, Wis.
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