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Variable Rate Technology

Instrumentation for varying the rates of application of fertilizer, pesticide and seed across a field.
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  • Mar. 1, 2013
    Article

    Mid-South Farm and Gin Show begins today

    More than 450 exhibits, featuring the latest in equipment, products, and services await you at the 61st Mid-South Farm and Gin Show, which begins today (Friday, March 1) at the downtown Cook Convention Center in Memphis....More
  • Feb. 28, 2013
    Commentary

    Love your dog? Thank a farmer

    In an agriculture industry increasingly reliant on complex technology, dogs herd sheep; watch over cattle; detect invasive pests and plants hiding in produce for U.S. Customs; track metal theft through forensic marker recognition; and even hot-nose the trail of crop-destroying feral hogs. In addition to workaday value, for many farmers, dogs are simply ever-present, loyal companions — maybe a faithful Lab that is lord of the truck bed....More
  • Feb. 28, 2013
    Article

    Mid-South Farm and Gin Show begins its two-day run tomorrow

    The 61st Mid-South Farm and Gin Show gets under way tomorrow (Friday, March 1) at the downtown Cook Convention Center in Memphis, offering more than 400 exhibits of the latest equipment, products, and services for the 2013 farming season....More
  • Feb. 7, 2013
    Article

    New tax law increases direct expense deduction for 2012, 2013

    First-year Direct Expensing (Section 179) is an election in IRS code that allows businesses like farms to deduct the cost of capital purchases as a tax deductible expense....More
  • Jan. 30, 2013
    Article

    Cellphone app helps calculate fuel use, costs

    Farmers can use a new Farm Fuel Budget cellphone app to plan their fuel budget and total use for the next year or more.

...More
  • Jan. 23, 2013
    Article

    Efficient transportation remains critical for farmers 1

    In an environment of highs and lows for prices, market demands and costs, the one thing sought by farmers in terms of transporting their goods to market is certainty....More
  • Jan. 23, 2013
    Article

    Fiscal cliff legislation contained farm equipment windfall

    In terms of tractor and other farm machinery purchases, “there was a huge windfall in the 2013 tax legislation,” says Roger McEowen, director of Iowa State University’s Center for Agricultural Law and Taxation....More
  • Jan. 17, 2013
    Article

    VR ag improves efficiency

    “Variable rate agriculture gets back tobasics. It is more specific,” says Billie Scott, Wylie Sprayers Inc., equipment specialist....More
  • Dec. 19, 2012
    Article
    Southeast Farm Press

    Estate planning best way to mitigate rising tax

    Unless Congress acts before Jan. 1, 2013, the federal estate tax exemption is set to drop from $5.12 million to $1 million while the tax rate is set to rise from 35 percent to 55 percent for estates valued over the exemption amount....More
  • Dec. 10, 2012
    Article

    New CI irrigation book aims at getting the ‘most crop for the drop’

    Ed Barnes bristles when someone criticizes cotton farmers for using too much water....More
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