Start the New Year with lessons from Farm Journal
| | | Hello, 2021! We've Been Waiting For You | | | Start the New Year with lessons from Farm Journal.
Thanks for sharing in agriculture’s successes this year. Enjoy a look back at the challenges we overcame in 2020 and look forward to the great year ahead. Happy New Year! | | |
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| | | Farm Journal: The Cover Stories of 2020 | | |
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| | | December: Run With the Bulls - Take Charge of Your Crop Mix, Marketing | | by Sara Schafer | | Now is the time to be aggressive — not in marketing, financial decisions or crop mix shifts — but in risk management. After years of stagnant prices, the tide has turned. | | | | |
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| | | Mid-November: Strategies to Transfer Assets | | by Farm Journal Editors | | Mark Hanna has peace of mind because he has a plan. The north-central Iowa farmer is on track to retire in four years, transitioning his farm to his two sons, Andrew and Philip. | | | | |
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| | | November: Retrofit & Refurbish | | by Clinton Griffiths | For Bryan, Ohio, farmer Glen Newcomer, 2019 was a disaster.
“We only got 20% of our acreage planted because of the severe flooding and heavy rains,” Newcomer recounts. | | | | |
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| | | Mid-October: Big Ideas Born in the Field | | by Margy Eckelkamp | | The teams at AgLaunch and AgVentures Alliance are assembling a network of farmers from the Mid-South through the Midwest to link together precommercial startups with farmers who can provide their acres, data and insights. | | | | |
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| | | October: Flip the Script on Profitability | | by Chris Bennett | | Adam Chappell was a slave to pigweed. In 2009, he was on the brink of bankruptcy and facing a go-broke or go-green proposition. Drowning in input costs, Chappell cut bait from conventional agriculture and dived into a bootstrap version of innovative farming. | | | | |
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| | | September: Phosphorus Time Bomb for Agriculture? Myth and Reality | | by Chris Bennett | | When Hennig Brand lugged a final, sloshing pail of yellow urine over the cobblestones of a Hamburg street and down to a basement where he’d patiently collected 1,500 gallons of his neighbors’ pee in pots and tubs, the putrid stockpile represented one of the greatest leap forwards in agricultural history—albeit propelled by accident. | | | | |
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| | | July/August: Seed Empowers Every Input Decision | | by Sonja Begemann | | Imagine the day you can provide details about each specific field to your seed supplier and they take that information to custom-build the perfect hybrid or variety for each field. Sounds crazy, right? In reality, many seed companies can already do this. | | | | |
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| | | May/June: COVID-19 - Navigate A Way Forward | | by Farm Journal Editors | | Calving and planting season have been anything but typical for Matthew Raver in Greensburg, Ind. Around March 26, he came down with a fever — and it stuck with him for 12 days. | | | | |
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| | | April: How to Optimize Your Farm Shop | | by Sonja Begemann | | After years of planning, sketching, discussing and finally quoting prices, Dennis Ivers and his family finally built their “dream” shop. The third-generation corn and soybean farmer and his brother had ‘made do’ with the old shop long enough and four years ago built new. | | | | |
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| | | March: Farm Journal Test Plots - Starter Hits the Spot | | by Katie Humphreys | | This winter, Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie has fielded a variety of questions on starter fertilizer – one way to weatherproof early season plant growth, especially when soils are cooler after planting. | | | | |
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| | | Mid-February: The Next Grain Demand Giants | | by Clinton Griffiths | | A bag of feed crinkles in Samveasna David’s grip as he walks along his parent’s fishpond in Cambodia. | | | | |
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| | | February: Rural Town Renaissance | | by Sara Schafer | | “Never.” Like many farm kids from small towns, Lisa Ahrens Peterson was never going back. | | | | |
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| | | January: 20 Mega Trends for 2020 and Beyond | | by Clinton Griffiths | | Following a decade with the introduction of societal shifters such as the smartphone and the adoption of robotic milkers, 2020 could be the starting block for the fastest technological race in farming history. | | | | |
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