Special Sections
Mid-February 2018
Headlines
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The Hill Challenge
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...
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Spray Like A Pro
Training in proper spray techniques has never been more important.
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Weather Watch
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...
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A Family Tradition
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.
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Smarter Than Weeds
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...
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Super Tagalong
Let's face it, trailed and mounted sprayers mostly are the not-so-smart, not-so-big cousins of sleek, speedy self-propelled models. Whereas self-propelled sprayers are packed with technology for broad-acre work, pull-behinds are pretty basic and work on a smaller scale.
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Don't Dismiss Volatility
There is no easy button for dicamba applications. Nearly every step connected with spraying XtendiMax, FeXapan and Engenia herbicides in the Roundup Ready 2 Xtend trait system has been tightened for 2018.
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