Pivotal Issues Blog

By: B. Lynn Gordon Whether you are an employer aiming to motivate your employees or a chairperson of a committee for an organization in either of these leadership roles you will be more likely to reach your outcomes when you give your employees and volunteers a reason to care. As you refine your abilities to […]

By: Chris Bennett As Randy Dowdy walked along muddy turnrows under pounding January rains, he knew part of the topsoil from the farm that birthed the highest soybean yields in world history was gone. Staring across the wreckage of scoured fields, his record-breaking 171.7 bu. soybeans and 521 bu. corn from fall harvest faded far […]

From: NebraskaFarmer.com Today’s tough weeds require a high-caliber applicator who is ready to face them head on. A crucial component of this role is reducing spray drift potential. When thinking about herbicide applications, two points should come to mind: efficacy and stewardship. It’s not enough to have one without the other, and proper practices are […]

By: Holly Spangler Matt Jungmann and his staff had a lightbulb moment a few years ago when high winds took down the stage at the Indiana State Fair and seven people were killed. As the national events director for Penton Ag and manager of the Farm Progress Show — an all-outdoor event that brings tens […]

By: Jessie Scott After city girl Lauren Arbogast married her farmer, as she lovingly refers to her husband, Brian, she became tremendously interested in the workings of the Virginia farm she now called home and the agriculture industry as a whole. “I was asking no less than 800 questions a day in those early years,” […]

By: Jeff Caldwell Though the existence of the Internet precedes its widespread consumer use by several decades, the medium as a way to communicate, find information, entertain, shop, network, and more has only been around for a couple of decades, a time in which its utility and general role in everyday life has been nothing […]

From: AgWeb Farm Journal Equipment can be one of the largest investments farmers make on their operation. And with today’s lower grain prices and tighter budgets, many are considering used machinery as an alternative to buying new. However, the hours logged on a piece of machinery are not always a reliable indicator of the health […]

By: Brad Haire Southeast peanut growers plan to plant more acres than last year in an effort to supply a market that wants more peanuts. In Georgia, where almost half of the nation’s peanut crop is produced annually, growers indicate they will plant more than 700,000 acres for the third straight year, said Scott Monfort, […]

From: Southeast Farm Press Pioneer brand corn products provided National Corn Growers Association Yield Contest participants with big wins in 2016. Overall, the NCGA awarded seven national and 199 state titles to growers who used Pioneer brand seed and entered the annual National Corn Yield Contest. “Our 2016 NCGA title winners demonstrate that our continued […]

From: Southeast Farm Press “Everyone was shocked at how good their cotton crop was. Overall, I am going to average 2.6 bales per acre with only 360 irrigated acres out of my 1,325 acres of cotton. My dry land cotton averaged 900-1,000 pounds per acre but my irrigated cotton averaged 3.4 bales per acre,” said […]