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17 Apr 2019
By Dan MillerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor Henderson Farms put two John Deere 1795 planters out into its north Alabama fields this spring mounting RTK guidance systems. "When you're pulling the planter on a drawbar with a pin, and the GPS unit is centered over the tractor, you get some planter drift," said Stuart Sanderson, who farms in partners...
16 Apr 2019
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst The American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) said in their sixth Annual Bridge Report that there are over 47,000 structurally deficient bridges in the U.S., and cars, trucks and school buses cross these compromised structures 178 million times every day. "At the current rate, it would ta...
16 Apr 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The Trump administration is preparing to boost high-speed mobile data considered next generation, or 5G, as well as roll out a $20 billion fund to increase rural broadband access. The FCC announced the plan just days after a Senate Commerce Committee hearing criticizing the agency for its broadba...
16 Apr 2019
By Anthony GrederDTN Managing Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- U.S. corn planting slipped behind the five-year average pace and spring wheat planting fell further behind average last week, according to USDA NASS' weekly Crop Progress report on Monday. For the week ended Sunday, April 14, 3% of the nation's corn crop was planted, equal to last year at the same...
15 Apr 2019
By Loretta Sorensen Progressive Farmer Contributing Editor Most consider conservation practices to be a long-view payoff. Chris Hitzeman sees them as avenues to profitability. The South Dakota farmer uses soil-quality and soil-health programs as the foundation for his self-guided pheasant-hunting business. When Hitzeman purchased his 700-acre Charl...