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Make a note: If you’re going to tour a sugar processing plant, be sure to take a spoon with you....More

Farmers across the Midwest are off to an early start this planting season. Spring is typically the busiest time of the year for farmers, and when rushing to take advantage of ideal planting conditions, it can be easy to neglect simple steps for staying safe and healthy while in the field....More

The new AI3070 spray tip from TeeJet Technologies provides thorough plant coverage with minimal spray drift. The spray tip utilizes a patent-pending design that provides two spray patterns at angles of 30º forward and 70º rearward. The leading pattern provides penetration into the foliage while the trailing pattern provides coverage of the upper crop canopy and grain head. The AI3070 incorporates air induction technology to minimize spray drift, while producing a large percentage of droplets in the medium to coarse category to maximize surface coverage....More

Bob Wolf has spent most of his career training pesticide applicators. Now he’s teaching farmers. Wolf, former extension specialist with Kansas State University and now manager of Wolf Consulting & Research LLC, says many farmers today own their own  spraying equipment. The problem, he says, is that most have not been trained how to use the latest application technologies. “State certification programs provide basic sprayer training,” Wolf says. “But farmers are asking for hands-on training geared specifically to them.”...More

When shopping for a new grain dryer, I had several features in mind. I wanted the most efficient grain dryer available. I wanted to switch from dryeration with hot grain to a dryer that would both dry and cool the grain. I wanted a dryer with as much or more drying capacity per hour as the dryer that I had. I wanted a dryer that would speed itself up or slow itself down in order to dump grain at a consistent moisture level....More

Reports of fields planted by mid-March in central and southern Illinois are coming in.   According to professor of crop sciences Emerson Nafziger, “Although there have been some fields planted this early in the past, this is the earliest we have ever had good planting conditions across so much of the state, and it’s certain that we have never before had this many corn acres planted so early.”  ...More