When the words "employee training" are mentioned, most farm managers typically do one of three things: laugh out loud, shake their heads in disgust or look highly confused. There is a misperception when it comes to training, which is nothing more than sharing knowledge and...

You read the label. You know the rules. Never spray dicamba or 2,4-D where it might drift onto crops that are sensitive to auxin herbicides.

Your root zone determines the level of a field's productivity. Managing what happens to the biologic teamwork between soil, nutrients and roots offers a prime opportunity to farm even more efficiently.

There's never been a better time to lower soybean seeding rates. Backed by genetic advances and modern seed treatments, Virginia farmer Stephen Ellis has been steadily thinning stands for years.

John Weber, a corn/soybean and hog producer from Dysart, Iowa, is passionate about improving water quality. The past president of the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC)and member of the NPPC environmental committee thinks every farmer should be doing something to...

Regardless of the current condition of your sprayer, a thorough, systematic approach to preparing the machine for the 2018 season can pay dividends in reduced downtime and yield-robbing application problems.

When Dave Fick used a Hardi sprayer with its Twin Air Assistance feature 18 years ago, he thought he'd never go back to a standard boom. "That was it, though; I had to have the air-assist boom," Fick says. "Now, I use an air-assist sprayer on everything."

If you don't have hilly fields, consider yourself lucky, especially in this era when "teeter-tottering" booms can cause disaster. With one end stuck high in the air, the other scrapes the crop canopy. This can mean ineffective spray application of expensive chemicals or...

Training in proper spray techniques has never been more important.

Grandpa licked a finger and held it up to check the direction of the wind. Back then, that was the state of technology for checking the weather. Today, a high-tech on-farm weather station can track your cell phone and send text message alerts when the wind is about to...

Step into this field outside Herndon, Kentucky, and touch a bit of agricultural history. One year, it may be planted in soybeans, the next year in corn. One thing, though, is certain: It will always be no-tilled.

The Holy Grail of weed control would be a fast system that kills invasive plants, does no harm to crops and uses a minimum of herbicide. The See & Spray system from Blue River Technology--while still in a testing phase--might be as close to that ideal as anything we...