AmericanCowman.com: Timely, practical production and management strategies that will add efficiency, value, and profitability to cattle herds with up to 100 head.
One-man, gin-ready cotton harvesting
By: By Larry Stalcup
In what some call the biggest cotton-harvesting breakthrough since the first mechanical picker hit the fields in 1943, Case IH has introduced a new high-tech picker...
Three rules for business success
By: by Lynn Grooms
George Whalin, author of Retail Success and president and CEO of Retail
Management Consultants, San Marcos, CA, says there are three main rules for
success in business today...
Glyphosate updates
Updates on glyphosate-resistant weeds, approaches to weed management and a glyphosate rate calculator are available at...
Education first: An interview with Brian and Darren Hefty
By: By Paul Gervais, Team FIN member
Team FIN farmer Paul Gervais, Tracy, MN, interviewed Brian Hefty and Darren Hefty when they were together on a tour of the soybean farms of Brazil in January. Brian and Darren are members of the Hefty family, which owns a large farm operation in South Dakota and the Hefty Seed Company, with 13 locations spanning three Midwestern states. The brothers also are the hosts of Ag PhD TV, a half-hour television show that is shown throughout the country each week, and Ag PhD Radio, a half-hour radio show that airs on stations in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota....
"INTIME" AERIAL IMAGES
By: By Larry Stalcup
Variable-rate application has enabled growers like Mississippi’s Trip Hayes to apply treatments where they’re needed when they’re needed.
Whether it’s a growth regulator for cotton, fungicide for peanuts or any number of other treatments for alfalfa, vegetables or trees, variable-rate application (VRA) is helping growers enhance their production efficiency....
Know your customers
By: by Lynn Grooms
Do you really know your customers? The closer you get to satisfying their
greatest needs, the closer you are to creating "customer dependency"...
Energy crop plan
By: By Lynn Grooms
The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) has announced a plan that would
enroll up to five million acres of land to promote the sustainable
production of next-generation biomass energy....
Cat dealers will sell RoGators and TerraGators
AGCO Corporation has changed its distribution channel for its agricultural spraying equipment. Beginning July 1, the company’s RoGators and TerraGators will be sold...
Keep in step
By: By Lynn Grooms
The Mid America CropLife Association (MACA) recently presented MFA Agri-Services, Mexico, MO, the state’s Extra STEP award. MACA sponsors this award, which recognizes businesses...
Shipping paper and label changes
New developments in the harmonization of international standards will change some of the shipping and label designations to which ag retailers have been accustomed. Dealers can expect to see changes beginning early next year...
Farmers with disabilities
If you have customers with disabilities, you might alert them to a program designed to support their continued independence in agricultural production. The National AgrAbility Project (www.agrabilityproject.org) ...
5% Drop In U.S. Corn Acreage?
By: By Corn E-Digest and John Pocock
USDA's Prospective Plantings report shows farmers across the nation plan to slash corn acreage by 3.74 million acres, or 5%, compared to 2005. ...
Breaking barriers to high yields
By: by Den Gardner
Hundreds of retailers and growers learned about technical solutions to growing corn and soybeans...
Seed treatment combos
By: By Liz Selvig
Syngenta’s seed treatment group touted the potential of its two new insecticide/fungicide seed treatment combos....
Forget the paper and pencil
By: by Natalie Knudsen
Today’s software handles everything from purchases to complete farm plans....
Boom time in Brazil
By: by Greg Lamp
With fierce competition, some dealers offer wide range of services...
Farmers Elevator Company
By: by Natalie Knudsen
This cooperative has an established business but a new Web site....
Paid Content 
Enhanced for the Web
