Marcia Ruff spends each day fulfilling her passions — splitting her time between kindergarten classrooms and the family farm. “This is really the dream life I had envisioned,” Ruff says. “As a teacher, you educate children and make them ready for the world, but as a farmer, you feed the world.”
Go ahead and buy the special pliers or tools to remove those annoying plastic fasteners. You might as well order a bag or box of replacement rivets, too, because trying to reuse those rivets is a waste of time.
As the use of spray drones grows in popularity, the technology is not without its challenges. According to Johnnie Roberts with the Council of Producers and Distributors of Agrotechnology, some of those challenges can be resolved by adding an adjuvant.
Profitable farmers create financial habits that separate them from others. These habits, consistently applied through the years, add up, and the results are evident.
For insights to prep your soil fertility for a vertical system and tips from a Tennessee farmer who shares his strategy for high yields without high costs to 10 surprises that could impact agriculture, there's plenty to learn.
