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Shop talk
by Ron Ross
Looking for ways to prop up sagging product margins? One rather obvious way is to lower equipment costs. Last year, managers of Farmers Elevator Company...
Cover Story
Updating sprayers
by Ron Ross
You probably put tens of thousands of dollars worth of crop protection or fertilizer products through a self-propelled sprayer during a busy season. If...
Focus Report
Parts and tires online
SprayParts R Us A new Web site, www.spraypartsrus.com, features high-use agricultural crop sprayer parts. It complements the Spray Parts R Us catalog...
What's new crops
Keystone LA Keystone LA herbicide, a soil-applied premix of acetochlor and atrazine, will be available for the 2003 growing season, reports Dow AgroSciences....
How to choose a GPS lightbar
by Wayne Wenzel
With their lower price and easy installation, the new generation of lightbar systems may be a good compromise if you want to drive straighter without...
What's new shop
MIG welders Two MIG welders from Hobart Welders the Handler 135 and 175 have a wide sweet spot so you won't waste time trying to get the right adjustment....
What's new equipment
High-capacity Brandt The company designed this new suspended-boom, 1,600-gal. pull-type sprayer to compete with self-propelled models. The new sprayer...
Customer First
A fine match
by Karen McMahon
Buying nozzles for your sprayer just got easier. Nozzle manufacturers and crop protection companies are starting to use a new standardized color coding...
Cargill broadens precision ag programs
Ron Ross
Launched last year, Cargill's InSite VRN (variable rate nitrogen) system writes prescription rates for N, based on a field's yield potential. A result...
Buying a two-way radio?
by Chris Ramsden
Two-way communication can help you quickly and efficiently coordinate your employees' activities and respond to emergencies. To choose the right system...
Articles
Losing ground?
Ron Ross, Editor
Farmers are hustling to meet the April 1 deadline to sign up for direct and countercyclical program benefits allotted under the 2002 farm bill. Although...
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