Reaping The Benefits Of New Technology
⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
J
ames and Nick Marshall, a father-son team in Baker, Florida, aren’t new to the world of cotton farming. James, setting off on his own in 1972 after seeing his...
• By Brad Buck •
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, data derived from farms might be more valuable than the crops growers produce. That’s because farmers can make money from their data when companies use it for other...
Parasitic nematodes cause $125 billion in agricultural damage around the world each year, but University of Florida scientists hope to alleviate some of that destruction.
To do so, UF researchers will use artificial intelligence to try to more rapidly identify...
• By David Wright,
University of Florida •
Many crop producers in the Florida Panhandle use conservation tillage when planting into winter fallow weeds or cover crops.
The University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences research data over the years shows...
Data the state of Georgia has collected on farmers’ water use since 2004 show farmers are responsibly using water to irrigate their crops, Mark Masters, director of the Georgia Water Planning and Policy Center at Albany State University told...
MISSOURI
Mike Milam
[email protected]
DROUGHT CONTINUES IN MISSOURI
Southeast Missouri is blessed with groundwater resources. Irrigation really helped us duringseveral severe droughts within the past five years. The Drought Monitor had our growing area classified as exceptional drought during much of the growing...
MISSOURI
Mike Milam
[email protected]
EXCEPTIONAL DROUGHT HURT MISSOURI
As we look back on the 2012 Missouri cotton crop, we had a pretty good year. While our drought conditions were described by the Drought Monitor as exceptional, we still had a better-than-average year. With...
