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Cost of Compaction and How To Avoid It!
Soil compaction is a silent yield robber. Unlike a wind storm or hail damage, you may not see the harm to your crop — but you will certainly see it on your combine’s yield monitor. In the old days we…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Short Cuts: What is a plant health agent and does your crop need one?
We've heard of secret agents and talent agents, but what is a plant health agent? And more importantly, do you really need one? Damian talks with Matt Miles and Trey Curtis from Concept Agritek abou…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Farming On The Bay
Temple Rhodes farms on Maryland’s eastern shore, operates a couple other business ventures, and he’s now contributing to XtremeAg. Throughout the season we’ll tune in to see what Mr. Rhodes is doing …
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Short Cuts: The Rice Farmer
Miles Farms is not only a producer of corn, soybeans, cotton and wheat, but they also manage a significant rice growing operation. Rice is a unique crop that many people outside of the 6 big rice gr…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Cattle Marketing and Risk Management Strategies
Beef production has a long timeline —more than a year from birth to processed beef and if you count in 9 months of gestation, you’re pushing two years from start to a finished product. So, just like …
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Short Cuts: Finding The Right In-Furrow Program For Cotton
Cotton is a plant that is born to die. It emerges and then it spends the rest of its life trying to die. Well, maybe not exactly, but, let's face it Cotton is finicky and requires a lot of attention.…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Demystifying The Carbon Marketplace
We’ve been hearing about the financial promise of carbon markets in production Agriculture for a couple years. What’s the deal? What is required of you and your farm to get paid for carbon? What chan…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Identifying Your Farm’s Business Weaknesses
Nobody can excel at everything. Your farm operation is not an exception to this reality. As such, most farms excel at production while delicately managing around — or oftentimes overlooking — their w…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
Crop Stress Mitigation Strategies
Generally when we think of crop stress, we think of heat and drought. However there’s also stress of cold and wet and many other stressful occurrences that arise throughout a growing season. Successf…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
The Highs And Lows of Cotton Farming
Matt Miles's father used to say, “Cotton is always looking for a reason to die.” Matt explains cotton production in the Arkansas delta — from moisture issues to managing a high maintenance crop to ca…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago