Every season farmers face a suite of production and conservation decisions, including crop and variety selection, fertilizer use, conservation strategies, and timing and intensity of tillage and irrigation. These decisions are informed by factors such as agricultural policy and technology availability.
According to the Annual Acreage Report, conducted by Mercaris, farmers will harvest 3.1 million acres of U.S. land certified for organic field crop production, an increase of 7% over 2018.
Even before the 2018 harvest is completed, industry forecasters are looking ahead to cropping acres for 2019. And it appears we’ll be looking at a flip-flop of what we saw this past year, which should serve as a heads up for farm equipment manufacturers and dealers.
Test plots comparing GMO and non-GMO seed, others assessing the potential of single seed sowing of grain crops, and demonstrations of equipment will be among the activities at the new Horsch demo farm that opens this month with its first practical field days.
Since the early 1970s the practice of no-till cropping has steadily grown and is expected to maintain its steady expansion through at least the next decade, according to Frank Lessiter.
John Miller, chief executive officer of Valley Truck & Tractor, understands the most pressing matters affecting the ag industry in California. He discuses how regulation and water management are the most influential to those in this field.
Farmer input costs have been among the top three North American farm equipment dealers’ major concerns over the past 5 years, including number one in 2015, according to the results of Ag Equipment Intelligence’s annual Dealers Business Outlook & Trends survey — and for good reason.
The growing push to adopt conservation tillage practice to help improve overall soil health appears to be giving some traction to the use of strip-tillage practices.
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In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, we talk to a Solectrac executive about the company's search for a new investor. In the Technology Corner, Noah Newman talks about the majors' growing presence in the precision retrofit market.