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Spring is truly the season of the American farmer, or rather it was. Climatologists are predicting a second wet spring for the coming March to May planting season. This wet spring phenomenon was first witnessed last year, and it is yet unknown whether this will become...

The agricultural sector has been impacted significantly by of the Covid-19 pandemic. Farmers have been affected globally, but the long-term impact is yet to be felt. In this environment fear and anxiety over the spread of the virus, a global slowdown in food supply...

If you’re trying your hand at ecological or conservation farming, the variety of available tillage practices is something you should be paying attention to. Some of the aims of ecological farming are reduction of soil degradation and maintenance of soil quality; as...

Rice is a tough act to follow, especially when it’s rice following rice on Duane Gaither’s blue gumbo near Hoxie, Ark. Gaither’s Clover Bend Farms includes 2,700 acres of continuous rice. It’s a crop that demands a good, even seedbed and there was a time when...

The rich soil along the Missouri River holds big-yield possibilities — but it doesn’t always give up its bounty easily. “What the river gives, the river can take away,” says Steven Ewert who produces corn and soybeans near Liberty, Mo., with his brothers, Mark, Scott...