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Pros and cons of popular conservation practices

Pros and cons of popular conservation practices

  • 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.

Barn Boards and Baling Wire

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  • 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.

Extension evolves through flat funding

Extension evolves through flat funding

  • By Crystal Reed, Illinois Farmer Today

Extension services in the United States have a long history. 

‘A single fly can turn into a million flies’

‘A single fly can turn into a million flies’

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      Fruit lovers drawn to ripe fields and sweet recipes

      • Tim Kenyon

      Location and timing seem to be the keys to finding good berries this season.

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      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.

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      "They thought I was the luckiest kid alive. I could have charged admission."

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      9,200 miles a month: Champion auctioneer’s road to success

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        CSA owner gets creative with plans for the future

        CSA owner gets creative with plans for the future

        • Tim Kenyon

        MOUNT VERNON, Iowa — Vegetable farmer Laura Krouse has a set-by-example leadership style in her agriculture work and rural life.

        Father-daughter duo turns milkweed into multi-faceted enterprise

        Father-daughter duo turns milkweed into multi-faceted enterprise

        • 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.

        NDSU field days to focus on new technologies

        NDSU field days to focus on new technologies

        • 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.

        June storms damage farm buildings, grain bins

        June storms damage farm buildings, grain bins

        • 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. 

        Haying goes quickly, crops struggle with lack of rain

        Haying goes quickly, crops struggle with lack of rain

        • 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.

        Precision begins with basics

        Precision begins with basics

        • 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…

        Sixth generation sets ambitions for family ranch

        Sixth generation sets ambitions for family ranch

        • 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…

        Farmers respond to changing weather

        Farmers respond to changing weather

        • 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.

        Successful dairies make the most of resources

        Successful dairies make the most of resources

        • 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.

        Thunderstorm brings good moisture, spurs crops at Bock Farms

        Thunderstorm brings good moisture, spurs crops at Bock Farms

        • 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.

        Gypsy Vanners: Beautiful horses with an abundance of hair and the look of a draft

        Gypsy Vanners: Beautiful horses with an abundance of hair and the look of a draft

        • 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.”

        For better or worse, for planting or harvest: Marriage and the farm

        For better or worse, for planting or harvest: Marriage and the farm

        • 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.

        Don't share Ritter's fate

        Don't share Ritter's fate

        • 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.

        Dad’s valuable wisdom

        Dad’s valuable wisdom

        • 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."

        Spear crops thriving in fields with timely rains

        Spear crops thriving in fields with timely rains

          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.

          High Plains drought impacts planting decisions, survey shows

          High Plains drought impacts planting decisions, survey shows

          • Janelle Atyeo

          Drought conditions in the Upper Midwest worsened as farmers planted their fields this spring, causing some to shift acres away from water-hungry corn.

          Dry spell tests patience for Rockham producer

          Dry spell tests patience for Rockham producer

          • Katelyn Winberg

          Jade Jandel farms near Rockham, S.D., where the rain gauge has offered just enough to keep hope alive and not much more.

          Family diversifies tricentennial dairy farm

          Family diversifies tricentennial dairy farm

          • Lynnette Wright USDA

          Meet Robbie and Shannon Dygert, 13th-generation dairy farmers of Dygert Farms in Palatine Bridge, New York, an operation that has been in the family for more than 300 years. The original farmstead was deeded to the family in 1723 by the British royal family and has been run as a dairy ever s…

          After 19 years, a new life for 751

          After 19 years, a new life for 751

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          In 2007, the first iPhone was released, Netflix started streaming service, NASA successfully landed a spaceship on Mars, and 751 was born.

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          Nebraska brand fees change Aug. 1

            Nebraska's Brand Committee is reorganizing, as directed by the Legislature. Changes include an all-new board, new director and new fees. 

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            It’s been a long ride for the Silver Spurs 4-H Club, which got its start more than six decades ago in 1963.

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