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Landwatch
ARKANSAS, Chicot County. Acreage totaling 1,170, with 1,120 precision-leveled and irrigated acres of cropland, sold for $5.21 million, or $4,450 per acre. The land was mostly clay soils and included 12 electric irrigation wells. Crop history includes corn, soybeans and rice. Contact...
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"We Do All We Do"
Post-World War II, Percy Patterson, from Drew, Mississippi, was weighing his options for a future. Instead of heading north like a lot of young men his age, he decided to stay in Mississippi.
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Landwatch
ILLINOIS, Marion County. Contiguous farmland totaling 705 acres sold at auction in nine tracts for $3,295,000, or $4,674 per acre. Of the acreage, 513 acres were tillable, with most of the balance in timber. One tract included a home and outbuildings, including a shop, grain...
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Wild Things
As a dawn fog lifts over eastern North Carolina, a squad of ring-necked ducks glides into decoys beckoning them down into an area of standing cornstalks poking up from a shallow water impoundment.
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Testing New Futures
"No. You missed that," Scott Johnson says, correcting a caller. He and his wife, Jean, were traversing a part of eastern Colorado on one end of a long-distance struggle with cell service. The caller had entirely missed the point Scott made about holistic management. It is...
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Last Laugh
Heath Stolee has embraced the ribbing he gets for the chestnut grove he tends near Radcliffe, Iowa. "We're in corn and soybean country. All the neighbors are giving me a hard time, saying you're kind of nutty," Stolee says. To the 25 acres of Chinese chestnuts planted in...
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Data Revolution's Human Touch
Chalmers, Indiana, farmer Brandon Bell isn't waiting for that digital ah-ha moment, when with a simple mouse click or two, a computer generates game-changing recommendations that match the complexities of farming.