How much acreage can a president take with the stroke of a pen? 10 million acres? 500 million acres? More? The answer, says sixth-generation rancher Chris Heaton, is not a single acre beyond the law. Heaton’s livestock operation is at risk from the federal government’s latest land appropriation — a near million-acre claim by President Joe Biden via the Antiquities Act through creation of the Ancestral Footprints National Monument.
Ken Ferrie says 37% of seed corn samples he's reviewed fall below good quality levels and 11% fall into the poor category. He advises retaining 2 lb. of each questionable lot until stand establishment can be evaluated.
“If we step back and look at what that means for farmland, we're taking our energy production system from highly centralized production facilities and we have to distribute it,” says David Muth of Peoples Company Capital Markets.
Planting has been running smoothly, but according to the seed monitor a few rows are consistently planting a higher or lower population. Not thousands of seeds per acre off the norm, but enough to annoy you. Here are things to check.
The joint satellite communications service will be available in the second half of 2024 to farmers in Brazil, with plans to expand the collaboration to the U.S., Australia and other regions.
