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Emergency Prep For Farm Animals

Develop a Barn Safety and Evacuation Plan Your evacuation plan should outline each type of disaster and determine specific scenarios best suited for each... 

How to Plow With Two Row Cultivators

Plant your garden so that the rows are spaced suitable for cultivating with the equipment you have available. If you are growing a small patch of vegetables,... 

12 Ways To Sell Your Niche Farm Products To Hungry Customers

There are a multitude of methods by which you can sell what your farm produces. Let’s take a quick look at some of these. The first eight listed... 

Wheat, Rice, And Cooking Oil Shortage Leads To Rationing In Some US Stores

It is being reported that the recent steep rise in commodity prices around the world are beginning to impact American’s dinner plans. Costco stores... 

Energy-Saving Practices On Todays Farm

Over the past 5 years, the price of fuels has risen sharply and remains high by historical standards. Driven by strong worldwide economic growth (especially... 

How To Manage Wheat As A Forage Crop

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Many Hoosier producers who planted winter wheat may not be familiar with managing the crop as a forage, a Purdue University experts... 

Minimizing phosphorus loss from your fields

Follow these recommendations to reduce phosphorus loss from your farm: - Apply phosphorus to fields that have an agronomic need for phosphorus. Phosphorus... 

How Much SCN Tax Will You Be Paying This Year?

You are planting more soybeans this year for revenue purposes, but just like sharing some of that revenue with the IRS, you’ll be paying a share of your... 

USDA RURAL DEVELOPMENT INVITES APPLICATIONS

WASHINGTON, March 6, 2008 - Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer announced during an international renewable energy conference that USDA will accept $220.9 million... 

Extension Update

Extension Update is a weekly summary of news from Extension, government, and other attributable sources, focused on marketing, farm management, and other... 

Managing Waterhemp With A Devious Nature

As you think ahead a few weeks, and make your herbicide plans, you remember that nagging patch of waterhemp that just won’t go away. You have tried... 

10 Simple Ways To Make Your Stable Safer

1. Roll up hoses. It’s all too easy to drag the hose out to water the horses, or run the hose to water the arena…then leave it there. It’s...