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Plant breeder Jessica Barb is on a mission to improve how sunflowers self-pollinate, a trait that'll be increasingly important to farmers are wild bee...
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A new study has found that the vast amount of animal-feed crops humans grow to satisfy the global appetite for meat is seriously harming the planet.As The…
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A Colorado State University crop and soil scientist recently secured funding for sites in northeastern Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska to look at ways…
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Cropland in the Midwest is losing its value as the downturn in the agriculture economy continues, according to a number of surveys by agricultural…
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From Harvest Public Media: Near Alexander, Iowa, on a cloudy spring Tuesday, Josh Nelson watches a bright red Case IH Magnum tractor pull a 24-row planter…
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From Harvest Public Media:Midwest farmers are expected to plant a huge corn crop this year.The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts farmers will plant…
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From Kansas Agland:It is evident from the sweeping acres of sorghum, wheat and pastures of cattle, the irrigated circles that can be seen from the sky,…
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When the USDA released its March Prospective Plantings report, some ag experts and grain markets were baffled by the large shift toward corn acres. The…
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The agriculture industry is entering a new period. This most recent stage is called margin compression, reports CattleNetwork.com. It occurs when revenues…
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Native grasslands are being cultivated into cropland faster than at any time since before the Great Depression, according to the Center for Rural Affairs.…