UDSA released its Prospective Plantings and Grain Stocks reports on March 31, forecasting increases in planted corn and soybean acreage for 2023, as well as reporting year-over-year decreases in corn and soybean stocks vs. 2022.
The March 31, 2022, Prospective Plantings report from USDA forecasts planted corn acreage in 2022 at 89.5 million acres, down 4% of 3.87 million acres from 2021.
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Today we’re spotlighting Trimble’s new see and spray technology. It’s called the Bilberry system — a camera-based system that enables farmers to save up to 90% on herbicide applications by only spraying where the weeds are in the field. And as Trimble’s Cory Buchs tells us, one of the best things about it is it retrofits to existing sprayers.