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Courtesy of Continuum AG BETTER SOIL: Mitchel Hora of Iowa founded Continuum Ag to help farmers improve and monetize their soil health. Learn about the potential payoff for quantifying soil health improvements. Mitchell Hora farms near Washington, Iowa. He’s also a businessman with an objective: helping other farmers realize the value of improving and monetizing soil health. Hora founded Continuum Ag in 2015. Today, the company has 13 employees, with several dedicate...

As production costs rise, Tillamook Creamery is appealing to customers by highlighting its sustainability and social responsibility. The co-ops ‘Good Is Something We Make Together’ report on 2020 activities could have a marketing benefit. As rising food production costs are pushing retail prices skyward, a well-known Pacific Northwest dairy cooperative is seeking to strengthen its bond with loyal West Coast customers by burnishing its social credentials. The Tillamook County Creamery ...

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Courtesy of Future Acres HARVEST HELPER: The Carry is a compact electric robot that can pull picked crop from the row to staging areas for movement into processing. It’s from a startup called Future Acres that’s using crowdfunding to bring the product to market. Futures Acres takes a targeted approach to bring autonomy to the table grape business. A phone conversation with Suma Reddy is a super-charged conversation that covers key issues facing agriculture. In a m...

The latest Farm Progress PANEL gets a look at how respondents are geared up for a perfect planting season

by Janet Kubat Willette (Farm Progress) Madhu Khanna, distinguished professor of environmental economics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, says that CRP acres have the potential to produce harvestable bioenergy crops. Speaking at a Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics webinar earlier this year, Khanna addressed the food v. fuel debate and looked ahead to second generation biofuels. She has been doing research in the area of land use and environmental impacts of...

Grains end Friday’s session lightly mixed.

The Around Farm Progress podcast digs in on the but John Deere launch to look at some of these tools in more detail.

Farm Progress celebrates International Women’s Day with 33 influencers from across the nation.