Forty years ago, North Dakota typically grew 3.5 million acres of barley annually, according to Dr. Rich Horsley, NDSU barley breeder. It was a major commodity crop in the 1980s, like spring wheat.
- Sue Roesler
At NDSU Carrington Research Extension Center’s (CREC) field day this July, Michael Wunsch, NDSU CREC research plant pathologist, will explain the connection between genetics and root rot disease in pulse crops.
- Janelle Atyeo
The leafy plants have closed rows earlier than in recent years. That typically means good things for future yields and provides some help shading out weeds growing between the rows. However, it creates conditions for harmful fungus to flourish and spread from plant to plant.
- Kristen Sindelar
Scotts Bluff 4-H is a frenzy of fur and feathers. The small animal program has a strong presence at each Scotts Bluff County Fair with between 50-65 rabbits and an additional 80 chickens, Bantams, geese, ducks, turkey and other fowl.
- Jim Woster
"Feeder pig day was long, dusty and hard work, which fit in perfectly for the guys who made up the hog division. Long, dusty and hard were major components of their entire week."
- Benjamin Herrold
When it comes to implementing conservation practices on the farm, farmers consider both the economic impact of those practices as well as how they help achieve environmental goals.
- John Sumwalt For Agri-View
Editor’s note: Most of our ancestors were immigrants coming to this country looking for better lives. As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, remember the challenges our ancestors faced.
- By Crystal Reed, Illinois Farmer Today
Extension services in the United States have a long history.
Welcome to The Beef Brief, a new monthly column that explores and reports some of the most pressing topics in the beef industry.
Years ago, on an airplane, I found myself in conversation with a business executive from Texas Instruments. He was generous enough to share his formula for success: Find a need, fill it with quality and market to those who have the need.
- Tim Kenyon
Location and timing seem to be the keys to finding good berries this season.
- Chris Hardie For Agri-View
Starting our new garden area this past year was a lot of work but we are finally experiencing the fruits of our labor. The past year’s plantings of strawberries are now providing us the sweet taste of late spring that’s always a delicious way to welcome summer.
Coming out of the competition in St. Onge, South Dakota as the reigning World Livestock Auctioneer Champion, Jace Thompson is prepared to put his dedication to work on an international scale.
- Tim Kenyon
MOUNT VERNON, Iowa — Vegetable farmer Laura Krouse has a set-by-example leadership style in her agriculture work and rural life.
- Kristen Sindelar
A woman in southwestern Nebraska is unlocking the potential of the seemingly common milkweed plant for its unprecedented silken, thermal and medicinal attributes.
- Sue Roesler
Producers who are able to take a break and visit their local NDSU Research Extension Center (REC) in mid-summer can attest to the energy felt at annual field days.
- Sue Roesler
June is turning out to be a month of thunderstorms and both rainy and somewhat dry conditions depending on locations across the state, but most areas are reporting that newly emerged and growing crops are coming along and developing well.
- By Kylie Mockler of Centerville, S.D.
It’s been a busy couple of weeks on the Mockler farm. Within the last 10 days, we have cut, baled and stacked our first cutting of hay.
- Tim Gieseke University of Minnesota
“Precision” has been the trend in agriculture for the past few decades. Advancements like auto-steering, yield monitors, remote sensing/imagery and variable rate technologies have allowed farmers to be more efficient and productive, and to lessen impacts on water, natural resources and the e…
- Janelle Atyeo
Meet the Messenger's newest Producer Progress Reporter! Noah Seberger is a junior at Rock County High School in Bassett, and the Rock County FFA president. He'll be giving reports from his grandparents' black Angus ranch, and he's got some pretty grand ambitions for the coming school year an…
- Crystal Reed Lee Agri-Media
The United States produces about $300 billion a year in agricultural commodities, and all of that is vulnerable to climate change.
- Benjamin Herrold
Chloe Collins works as a University of Missouri Extension dairy field specialist based in Mountain Grove, Missouri. She earned her bachelor’s degree in animal science and her master’s degree in agriculture from Missouri State University in Springfield.
- Sue Roesler
FOXHOLM, N.D. – Crops are developing well in the fields at Bock Farms in northwestern North Dakota, with cooler temperatures in the 60s and low 70s moving in during mid-June.
- Ruth Nicolaus
“A lot of people will say they are born broke. That isn’t quite the case, but they’re much calmer than other breeds.”
- Colleen Stegenga
Nobody puts it in the vows. There is no line that says “I promise to love you through harvest season, through the years the rain does not come ...” But for farm couples across rural America, that is exactly what the vows mean.
- Estefanía Pinto Ruiz Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk
BLUE MOUND, Ill. – Tom Ritter and his son, Cory Ritter, had worked together with their families every harvest season for the past 20 years.
- Glenn Brunkow
"Since Dad’s passing, I often remember things he told me. Often, I remember those things right after it would have been helpful."
DRAKE, N.D. – With the official start of summer on the horizon, Scott Spear was busy in the sprayer going down his spring wheat fields spraying post-emergent herbicide when he gave his report on June 14.
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