Eric Hawbaker didn’t grow up on a farm, but a decade of working in the fertilizer industry as an agronomist, service tech and precision ag salesman left him concerned about the losses he saw occurring as a result of broadcasting nutrients.
Colby Hunt, an Illinois farmer and McDonough County Farm Bureau president, recently installed a woodchip bioreactor at the edge of one of his fields, the latest in his family's long history of improving stewardship efforts.
The Illinois Department of Agriculture will adopt and implement a crop insurance reward program for cover crops that American Farmland Trust and a coalition of agriculture, environmental and conservation organizations developed.
Incorporating cover crops into a rotation can be thought of as a way to mimic perennial systems where nitrogen is rarely lost, says South Dakota State University Extension.
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Francois and Samantha Naude detail their unique closing wheel from FigTri Steel Products & Engineering, designed for the South African climate where compaction can be a real issue in the arid environment.
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