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Fertilizer-Enhancing Adjuvants News Reporter It’s time for your Farm of the Future Report. I’m Tim Hammerich. Farmers have become very efficient with their fertilizer applications, but there’s room for even more improvement if we can keep the nutrients from leaching away from the plant. BPS agriculture’s Augere is a fertilizer enhancing adjuvant for improving the uptake of nutrients in crops like corn, wheat, soybeans, rice, and cotton, and significantly reducing nitrate lea...

Prop 12 a Tough Situation for the Pork Industry Friday Apr 30th, 2021 News Reporter With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich. Proposition 12 was passed by referendum back in 2018 and is scheduled to come into effect in 2022. There’s still a lot of uncertainty about how the law, which establishes new standards for confinement of specified farm animals, will be executed. Christine McCracken is executive director and protein analyst at Rabobank. McCracken… “The industry is k...

Pre-harvest Testing to Reduce Outbreaks Thursday May 6th, 2021 News Reporter With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich. Last month the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement Board endorsed new pre-harvest testing guidance in an effort to prevent foodborne illness outbreaks associated with leafy greens. CEO Tim York says they’ve been working on pre-harvest testing for a while, and when they heard that the FDA report would be public soon mentioning cattle as a primary area ...

New Podcast Targeting California Cattle Producers Wednesday May 5th, 2021 News Reporter With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich. Attention cattle producers and enthusiasts. The University of California Cooperative Extension has launched a new podcast just for you: CattleCal. That’s “Cal” with only one “L”, is targeting both beef and dairy producers and will be hosted by assistant feedlot management extension specialist, Pedro Carvalho. Carvalho… “The focus of my...

Agtech Tools Need to Go Further for Actionable Insights Wednesday May 5th, 2021 News Reporter It’s time for your Farm of the Future Report. I’m Tim Hammerich. Farming is sometimes referred to as the least digitized industry. One reason this could be the case is because a lot of decisions on the farm have to take into account a wide variety of data that is sometimes not quantifiable. For instance, when looking at crop disease risk, temperature and moisture will be big factors tha...

Making Digital Ag Easy News Reporter It’s time for you Farm of the Future Report. I’m Tim Hammerich. The concept of digital agriculture is not new, but has it really revolutionized agriculture yet? In some ways, it has certainly made in impact, but in others, the real changes are yet to be seen. A big reason for the lack of digitization is really because, well, farming is complex. Ethington… “If youre really going to unpack this incredibly complex dynamic system of crops gr...

Weather Stations Arent Always Close Enough Monday May 3rd, 2021 News Reporter It’s time for your Farm of the Future Report. I’m Tim Hammerich. Many agricultural technologies want to use weather station data to make decisions about what’s happening on the farm. But that’s not accurate enough, says Arable CEO Jim Ethington. He recalls an experience from years ago when he learned about this variability from some Kansas farmers. Ethington… “It had been dry. The crop didnt d...

Prop 12 a Tough Situation for the Pork Industry Friday Apr 30th, 2021 News Reporter With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich. Proposition 12 was passed by referendum back in 2018 and is scheduled to come into effect in 2022. There’s still a lot of uncertainty about how the law, which establishes new standards for confinement of specified farm animals, will be executed. Christine McCracken is executive director and protein analyst at Rabobank. McCracken… “The industry is k...

Farmer Seeks Technology to Optimize Field Operations Friday Apr 30th, 2021 News Reporter It’s time for your Farm of the Future Report. I’m Tim Hammerich. Many people are excited about agricultural technology, from investors to entrepreneurs to politicians. But the person who really matters when it comes to agtech adoption is the farmer. What does the farmer want? For farmer Landon Friesen, he is always looking to improve the efficiency of his time, equipment, and money. Friesen...

Low Water Allocations Remind Growers of 2015 Tuesday Apr 27th, 2021 News Reporter With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich. 2015 is not a year most farmers remember fondly. The severe drought affected California agriculture in profound ways, and alarmingly 2021 is looking very similar. Mike Wade is the executive director of the California Farm Water Coalition, which is a non-profit educational organization to help inform the public about agricultural water use. Wade… “Wev...