| What everyone’s reading this month
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 | | Obliteration. Randy Dowdy just blew the bin doors off soybean yield world records, hitting 190.23 bushels per acre (bpa) on 3.27 acres, and 179 bpa on 4.23 acres. |
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Machinery, harvest chaos and long hours are a ready-made recipe for consistent hazards in agriculture. However, the trip from tractors and combines to coffins often detours at the grain bin. |
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After four years of growing experience and a host of invaluable lessons learned, Chris Adams is emerging as a leading hemp producer in the Midwest. |
 | | Rhoda Rein listened in disbelief as a bank representative cited the rationale behind Rein’s denial: animal reproduction is forbidden. |
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Ken Ferrie and his agronomic team traveled through parts of Illinois, Iowa and Ohio to assess corn and soybean crops earlier this week. What they found went from one extreme to the other. |
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There is real value in looking to buy a 4-to-8-year-old used tractor—or combine, or any piece of farm equipment. I see two main reasons for the value hot spot in that range. |
 | | Climate change or weather cycles drive nutrition at the farm level. This year’s spring was wetter than usual causing crop planting dates to be from on the early side to very late depending on where you farm. |
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The words “potential” and “percentage of potential” have been bounced around during this unprecedented growing season. |
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The present success of General Grain is hooked to the coattails of yesterday’s hard-scrabble work and preparation. |
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Harvest is here for farmers in the South and getting closer for those up North. It’s a time when farmers don’t just hope they have a profitable crop but plan for a profitable year come 2020. |
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