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Nevil Speer
Speer: EIDs – Signal Versus Noise

USDA’s proposed rule change to the Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) framework has given rise to several recurring arguments which offer confusion and distraction. 

Challenge? Bring It On, Say National FFA Agriscience Fair Competitors
Challenge? Bring It On, Say National FFA Agriscience Fair Competitors

Sometimes the greatest lesson we can learn in life is how to not see a setback as a failure. Here's how five FFA members are discovering challenges are never the end of the road, but rather the beginning.

pC8 Take the Risk Out of Manure Fertilizer
Manure Application Following Silage

With silage harvest approaching, manure application may soon follow. Do you have a plan for optimum application rates and methods? Here's some tips to help make the best management decisions!

Create Value and Increase Demand: How Do Livestock Producers and Crop Growers Work Together?
Create Value and Increase Demand: How Do Livestock Producers and Crop Growers Work Together?

In a world of competition, there is value in U.S. agriculture producers finding ways to work together in search for separate, yet common goals.

Invasive Jumping Worm Thrashes Into 14 Midwest States
Invasive Jumping Worm Thrashes Into 14 Midwest States

The invasive, jumping worm makes its way through 14 states in the Midwest, disturbing native soil and plant species and causing an infestation with only one worm.

Conservation Agriculture Gains National Momentum
Conservation Agriculture Gains National Momentum

Farm Journal and foundational partners introduce America’s Conservation Ag Movement special edition of the magazine.

Conservation Agriculture: Savings, Soil and Realities of Farming
Conservation Agriculture: Savings, Soil and Realities of Farming

In four operations in Mississippi, Iowa and South Dakota, conservation agriculture and financial success are a wedded pair.

Listen to how this North Carolina farmer says he “got lucky” and became a farmer on this week's episode of The First Years podcast.
Firefighter to Farmer: A Childhood Dream Turned Reality

Listen to how this North Carolina farmer says he “got lucky” and became a farmer on this week's episode of The First Years podcast.

Meet Del Ficke, the Apostle of Regenerative Agriculture

Who slashes farmland acreage by three-quarters, jettisons a machinery fleet, and upends field practices, yet watches profits rise by 70 percent? Meet Del Ficke and a less-is-more farming approach.

Meet Del Ficke, the Apostle of Regenerative Agriculture
Meet Del Ficke, the Apostle of Regenerative Agriculture

Who slashes farmland acreage by three-quarters, jettisons a machinery fleet, and upends field practices, yet watches profits rise by 70 percent? Meet Del Ficke and a less-is-more farming approach.

Surface soil is sampled in a field in Virginia while in winter cover crop, but that will be planted to corn in the spring.
New Test Can Provide Better Measure of Soil-Nitrogen Availability

Knowing the soil’s potential to mineralize nitrogen from organic matter, making it available to plants, would help improve nitrogen fertilizer recommendations.

Striking a Balance with Cover Crops and Grazing
Striking a Balance with Cover Crops and Grazing

On his west-central Missouri farm, Kyle Grumke and his father Ross employ cover crops on every one of their 550 owned acres

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Cover Crops And Cattle Are Cash

On Mikey Taylor’s farmland, cover crops and livestock are the vehicle to building high-potential soils.

Research Explores Effects of Long-Term Residue Grazing
Research Explores Effects of Long-Term Residue Grazing

Nebraska researchers recently reported on a 16-year study, evaluating the effects of grazing on no-till, irrigated land in a corn-soybean rotation in eastern Nebraska.

 Does residue grazing affect later crop yields?
Does residue grazing affect later crop yields?

University of Nebraska researchers recently conducted a two-year study to evaluate the effects of grazing on subsequent yields and nutrient removal from baling at five locations in Nebraska.

Does residue grazing affect later crop yields?
Does residue grazing affect later crop yields?

University of Nebraska researchers recently conducted a two-year study to evaluate the effects of grazing on subsequent yields and nutrient removal from baling at five locations in Nebraska.