Cooler than average temperatures, combined with rain and snow, have pushed back planting for many Midwest farmers. It's not even May, but the slow planting pace is impacting commodity prices. Tyne Morgan, U.S. Farm Report host, visits with Brian Grete, editor of Pro Farmer, and Mark Gold with the StoneX Group.
“Today’s carbon programs are privatized cost share,” says Mitchell Hora, an Iowa farmer. “You can get paid to reduce tillage, add cover crops, reduce synthetic fertilizer. The more new things you adopt, the more you could get paid.”
No crop is more influenced by the natural environment (weather) than soybeans. You can’t change the natural environment, says Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie, but you can minimize its risk. You can even capitalize on soybeans’ reaction to the natural environment, and possibly increase yield, by planting soybeans earlier than what you’re used to.
Million Dollar Math Problem to Help Farmers Optimize Travel and Fieldwork
Heartland, a biotech company, says it has solved the Traveling Salesman Problem and intends to put the software in an app they’re calling ReMap that "saves farmers fuel and time.”
