Perfect Planter? AGCO Uses Blank Canvas to Paint New Planter Design

AGCO's new FENDT Momentum planter includes a vertical contouring toolbar that hugs the ground and moves, shifts with hills and other changes in farmland.

Farmer Turns Corn Field into Vietnam Memorial

The Eddlemans donated their 46-acre corn field to build a replica of the Vietnam memorial wall in Washington D.C.

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Ag Industry Thanks Trump Administration for WOTUS Replacement

The troubled 2015 Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule introduced by the Obama administration in 2015 to define which waters are regulated by the Clean Water Act was officially replaced today by the Navigable Waters Protection Rule.

Challenge Your Team to Develop Goals

Goal setting can pay dividends in employee engagement.

A Conference for Your Entire Farm Team

At Top Producer Summit, five events are co-located in Chicago, Jan. 27-30. As a one-of-a-kind networking event, you’ll have the opportunity to pick the events that fit you best – Top Producer Seminar, Executive Women in Agriculture, Tomorrow’s Top Producer, the Legacy Project Conference and Hemp Summit. Attend as a family or team and multiply your learning time.

Court: Kansas 'Ag-Gag' Unconstitutionally Bans Free Speech

Provisions in a Kansas law that ban the secret filming at slaughterhouses and other livestock facilities unconstitutionally criminalize free speech, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

Connect with Women in Agriculture Making a Difference

Speakers at Executive Women in Ag are industry leaders passionate about agriculture. Find information in Chicago Jan. 28-30 to achieve your farm, business and professional goals from speakers who have "been there, done that" and are sharing what they learned along the way.

CropX Acquires Precision Irrigation Company CropMetrics

CropX’s president John Vikupitz says that this acquisition is one step in simplifying technology for the grower while also bringing them new capabilities.

Trempealeau County, WI

My experience with NASS small grain survey this year. I planted 9 acres oats for cover crop, with my seeding this year reported to FSA at least twice for crop report and other programs that it would be cut for forage. So NASS sends me a small grains survey that I didn't fill out. They called I don't know how many times. Finally, sometime in mid November, a person drives into my place with the survey and asked if I had time to do it. I said yes and told them right away that I cut it for forage. They said thanks, made a check in the survey and left. I guess what I'm getting at is that we have 4 USDA departments NASS, WASDE, FSA, and RMA that all collect data, but apparently nobody shares information. It seems to me FSA collects the most information on actual planted acres and RMA collects the most information on actual yields and harvested acres. Why do we need to be surveyed by the other 2, so that they can guess at what FSA and RMA already know?

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