My son and I had an adventure this week to “hunt thistles”. It was actually a chore, but we had to make it fun somehow, so hunting it was. We had two different types of thistles in our pasture – musk and canada. Both have pretty, purple flowers, but they have thorns and “pokey” as Chisum […]
crop production
Top 10 questions about GMOs
What are your questions about GMOs? GMO Answers and the Council for Biotechnology Information are helping to answer those questions. They have commissioned a new national survey which identifies, for the first time, the top 10 questions consumers have about GMOs and to open up the conversation on biotechnology’s role in agriculture. Over the next […]
#AgCensus data shows who we are, what we produce
USDA released their final 2012 #AgCensus results yesterday and included some great infographics on the current status of American agriculture. Some interesting points that I pulled out: The average age of farm operators is 58, yet 22% of all farmers in the U.S. were beginning farmers in 2012. I’m pretty impressed by the number of […]
New forecast tool helps farmers with pests
Much like receiving your daily weather forecast, farmers have the technology to receive an insect forecast. Farmers do the best they can to be good stewards of their land and manage their resources to rid their crops of pests. Many farmers use a crop scout or another professional to help watch for these nuisances in […]
