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Enhanced financial incentives are being offered to Virginia growers willing to plant cover crops this fall through the Virginia Agricultural Cost-Share Program.

The season of giving is here! People are feeling the pressure of purchasing a gift for their wives, their mothers, their doting daughters, their chic sister, and their supportive gal pal. There are some who want to buy the most coveted item to treat themselves for the hard work done. If you’re h

Small Grain Workshops The University of Minnesota Extension Service and Minnesota Wheat Research and Promotion Council have teamed up to sponsor the annual Small Grain Workshops. This has been a quite popular program for a number of years as farmers are looking for a third crop to work into their corn soybean rotation. Plus, small grains are harvested much earlier than corn or soybeans. That gives livestock producers a place to haul manure, or an opportunity to do some tiling in the "off season...

Real-time grain sensors to help farmers sort quality more easily 22 December 2020 | Smart sensors will continuously measure grain as it flows through the combine harvester Farmers could soon benefit from new harvesting innovation that will sense the quality of grains such as wheat, barley and oilseed rape in real time. Using a technique often found in medical sensory devices, the smart sensors being tested will give farmers instant feedback on the quality of grains. The EIT Food-funded project...