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12 Feb 2019
By Dan MillerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor Sims Cattle Co. sits in the Rock Creek Valley at the foot of the Snowy Mountain Range, west of Laramie, Wyoming, and 200 miles north of Denver. Elk Mountain rises 11,000 feet in the distance. Sims cattle graze at 7,200 feet, and no month has gone without snow. Annual rainfall is 16 inches, most falling ...
11 Feb 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Keith Peters' spring planting prep list is longer than usual this year. His central Ohio farm absorbed a record annual rainfall of 55 inches in 2018, with much of it coming throughout the fall. As a result, Peters missed the window for his fall herbicide applications, strip tillage and P...
11 Feb 2019
By Pamela SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Waterhemp has just thumbed its nose at another group of herbicides. Waterhemp resistant to Group 15 herbicides (very long chain fatty acid inhibitors) has officially been found in Illinois research plots. It is the first dicot (broadleaf) weed in the world to outma...
11 Feb 2019
By Dan MillerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor Every whiskey has a good story. Hayes Kelman tells one about Red Eye Whiskey. His award-winning Boot Hill Distillery's Red Eye is fermented from the corn and wheat grown on Hayes's Kelman Farms, in Sublette, Kansas. Red Eye -- 51% corn, 49% wheat -- is "a beautiful, hand-crafted, trail-aged, frontier-st...
8 Feb 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor PARECIS, Mato Grosso, Brazil (DTN) -- As Brazilian farmers count their soybeans with the harvest in full throttle, the early numbers are coming in lower than last year. Ricardo Arioli Silva, a farmer, agronomist and occasional guide for hapless Americans trying to navigate Mato Grosso, said expectations for Braz...