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The United States experience with COVID-19 has in many ways shown the best of its citizens.

The Around Farm Progress podcast explores ways to determine best additives and technology to use with this year's crop

The images of broken water pipes and people lining up to get fresh water filled the airwaves and newspapers as residents of the Southwest worked to dig themselves out of some of the coldest weather on record. But what about the farms and ranches hit by that same weather? Temperatures dropped into the single digits during the second week of February and yet a week later, they rose back into the 70s. We wanted to get a closer look, so we turned to Shelley Huguley, Southwest Farm Press, for her in...

Slideshow: Check out this wide-ranging lineup of new products covering a range of needs around the farm.

Anuvia Plant Nutrients raises $103 million to move to next level of market development; supports carbon reduction technology

Willie Vogt BAD BREAK: To keep weeds from overpowering the crop in 2021, the best move is a solid preemergence program. And that starts with knowledge of your biggest problem in 2020. Looking back on 2020 is the first step for clean crops in 2021. For the last few years, farmers have found that the "easy button" on weed control has been disconnected. The success of a postemergence program that got every weed doesnt work that way anymore. This drives a growing need to b...

This week were exploring the latest trend in farm mechanization. Sure, row crop farmers ditched horses for iron decades ago, and even in specialty crop areas mechanization has come a long way. But when it comes to the actual harvest for those specialty crops, mechanization has been slow to arrive. Yet theres a new effort underway to ramp up the use of mechanization for more than corn and soybeans. Tim Hearden with Western Farm Press shares some insights on a new initiative in the West that has ...

When it came time for the Nugents in Elnora, Ind., to update their planter after last season, this father-son team decided to go custom. Really custom. Theyre building their own planter for the 2021 season and Tom Bechman with Indiana Prairie Farmer shares their story. Its an interesting look at the project, its cost and even the relationship the Nugents have with a neighbor sharing a heated shop for the project. Tom offers more details about this machine, including some of the tech the farm is...

Burro Burro markets autonomous, rugged cart robots that follow farm workers in the field and can haul goods for them and are currently used in table grape production in California. Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission makes a $200,000 donation toward the effort. A West Coast produce organization wants to teach the specialty-crop world how to automate its harvests, and a tree fruit group in Washington state has pledged $200,000 toward the effort. The Irvine, Calif...

The latest Farm Progress PANEL shows farmers are entering #plant21 with existing equipment