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AgrotechThe new tool for farm-input retailers combines past performance data, in-season crop information and satellite imagery, with anomaly detection, NDVI-based weekly reports and an AI summary.
AgrotechResearchers tested Ecorobotix's ARA sprayer, which treats a 2.4-inch square only where it sees a weed, and found strong residual programmes plus targeted spraying saved 64% to 83% of post-emergence herbicide with little crop injury.
CropsThe second edition of Cover Crops: Improving Soil Health, Stewardship and Profitability on the Farm adds new chapters and the experience of 12 farmers, and can be read free online.
CropsMore than 70 percent of Idaho's documented Palmer amaranth populations resist glyphosate and New York populations show metabolic resistance to atrazine, researchers told the GROW weed-management network.
CropsRetailers told CropLife that phosphate applications may fall to about 60% of two years ago, and one warns the urea-to-corn ratio could hit 174 bushels a ton in 2027.
AgrotechThe battery-powered robot films the undersides of soybean leaves where drones cannot see, feeding AI models meant to map frogeye leaf spot hot spots for targeted fungicide.
The ninth CTIC/SARE/ASTA survey, released 1 September at the Farm Progress Show from 657 farmers in 46 states, finds average cover-crop acreage of 397.9, a 3.5 bu/ac corn and 1.4 bu/ac soybean yield gain after covers, one in three users grazing them, 16.3% using drones, and 81.6% of farmers paid an
A chute on the combine funnels chaff and weed seed into narrow rows, past research put 95% of waterhemp seed into 5% of a field, and Ohio Soybean Council-funded work by Amber Emmons and Dr Eugene Law finds heavy chaff can cut waterhemp emergence 90% at densities equal to a 100 bu/ac soybean crop,
The farmer-owned cooperative's Evansville plant, due for completion in autumn 2028, will process 80 million bushels a year into about a billion pounds of oil and two million tons of meal, employ around 80 people and lift CHS's soybean crushing capacity by more than two-thirds on top of its Fairmont
With phosphorus retailing above US$1,000 a ton and some retailers burned on spring nitrogen, CropLife hears GROWMARK, AgriPartners and Sunrise Cooperative urge early procurement, more storage and honest grower communication; nearly half of global urea exports pass the Strait of Hormuz, over 60% of U
