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For 48 years, the National Farm Machinery Show has introduced new cutting edge technology, farm equipment, agricultural products and services that help farmers and business professionals around the world....More

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

As irrigation continues to expand and pumping costs increase, producers can utilize a number of tools and services through the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service to help them more efficiently water their crops....More

The question most often asked throughout the flue-cured tobacco area this winter was, “Will growers need new curing barns if they plant a substantially larger crop?”...More

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced a new microloan program from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) designed to help small and family operations, beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers secure loans under $35,000....More

In general, it’s a good idea for farmers to look at energy use on their farm every five years and consider opportunities to reduce energy consumption....More

The deepest insight Paul Mask ever gained into the value of precision farming occurred more than a generation ago, years before the term became commonplace in agriculture....More

There is no typical drainage ditch, says Agricultural Research Service ecologist Matt Moore....More

Agriculture is North Carolina’s largest industry, creating 20 percent of the state’s economy....More

The suspension of irrigation permits in portions of southwest Georgia was seen by many farmers as a threat to their livelihoods when it was first announced last summer....More

In the face of mounting concerns about weed resistance and pesticide management in farming, members of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System’s Precision Agriculture team will hold a sprayer clinic Jan. 22 at the E.V. Smith Research Center in Shorter....More

Edzard van Santen loves a good play on words — “I never turn down a great pun,” the Auburn University agronomy and soils professor says — which is why he intends to name the new switchgrass cultivar he’ll be releasing sometime in the next year ‘My Left Foot.’ Because that’s what it cost him to develop the new cultivar: his left foot....More