That water flows downslope and that its overland flow on cropland is manageable by changing the slope seems a complete enough truism that not much more can be said on the matter. Terraces and ditches as old and as widespread as farming itself testify to the obviousness of the fact. Yet in farming, […]

Cooperators from KEE, Navcom, and Capstan worked with The Farm to develop RTK Individual Nozzle Control.  Before our system, there was only one other way to have the kind of precision necessary to avoid having to spray around waterways.  View the movie to see the new, improved way that saves time and money and the old, low-tech […]

That water flows downslope and that its overland flow on cropland is manageable by changing the slope seems a complete enough truism that not much more can be said on the matter. Terraces and ditches as old and as widespread as farming itself testify to the obviousness of the fact. Yet in farming, […]

One of the externalities of reduced sulfur dioxide emissions brought about by the clean air act is increasing sulfur deficiency in crops, which must be corrected with applied fertilizer. I started seeing some sulfur deficiency last year in a few corn fields but didn’t quite believe my eyes. This year I saw the […]

While any girl in ruby slippers can tell you there’s no place like home, every farmer now and again daydreams about what farming is like in exotic and far away places, and no place has become more exotic or further away than Zimbabwe, which has been experiencing a boom in ecosystem services. Ecosystem services […]

More corn is produced in the world than any other agricultural commodity, and 45% of it is produced in the United States. By any measure, and with any agricultural commodity, no country is even a near second. To see where all that corn goes, look at the charts in the full story.

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While any girl in ruby slippers can tell you there’s no place like home, every farmer now and again daydreams about what farming is like in exotic and far away places, and no place has become more exotic or further away than Zimbabwe, which has been experiencing a boom in ecosystem services. Ecosystem services […]

Like you, I get queasy when pundits talk about our farming future being awash in information and GPS. Honestly, they won’t shut up about GPS. If your information technologies have given you more rising costs than rising profits and you have it up here, then let me take your quivering hand and show […]

Bob Wanzel created this video for PrecisionAg.com, and we didn’t make it easy for him. It was a foggy, rainy weekend, and he captured his footage during the middle of a stretch where we managed to harvest 200 acres of corn in a 24 hr period despite the weather.
Sadly I was in the process up […]

Our on-farm technology that wins the award for Most Likely to be Found on Interplanetary Space Missions goes to the Agrobotics AutoProbe, an altogether earthly device whose dawning light soothes the backs of agronomists and puzzles the minds of passing urbanites (who see it on the trailer at the gas station and guess it to be the machine that puts the […]

Last weekend I was playing on Cornell’s entry to the MBA Rugby World Championships, hosted annually by Duke for about 25 of the world’s most prestigious graduate business programs with games played in Durham, North Carolina and Danville, Virginia. While we were arriving at the pitch, the sky ripped open and unleashed a blinding […]

It was dark tonight, flying into Ithaca; getting out of the car in the unlit driveway that passes narrowly, between hedges, past our house where it widens and separates the neighbors’ back yards from Fall Creek, I didn’t know where I was by what I could see as much as by the sound of the […]