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The success of the Mars Rover mission might have some lessons for agriculture.

But you'll find all kinds of music, sports, and aspirations on the farm.  And some guy right now is probably listening to Young Jeezy in the tractor cab.

Here's a way you can pass the time and make your own official crop progress rating.

The SoilWeb smart phone appplication lets you drill down deeply into data from the ground you're standing on.

While pausing to recognize the war dead and the service of all veterans this weekend, it’s also a good time to acknowledge the people who quietly and resolutely maintain these bits of land that preserve the memories of our ancestors.

Looks like a  lot more smart phones are riding along in tractor cabs this spring. And farmers are putting them to work.

Grab your smart phone when you go to the field and you can keep the world of ag in your hand.

As the media have well documented, the tornado that hit Mapleton, Iowa, last Saturday night wreaked dramatic devastation on the town. But, now I wonder about the things you can’t see. What are people really thinking about the future of Mapleton, my home town? 

Marc Vanacht, a consultant to Japanese farmers and agribusiness and a frequent traveler to the nation, told me this afternoon that members of a Japanese delegation with him in St. Louis today say they have lost contact with their friends and relatives. His take on the quake: "This sure is a big one."

Happy, smiling faces seemed to be the overriding image at Commodity Classic this year. ((In just about every photo I took, (click here) people were just naturally saying “cheese."))  But, the message from Tampa also seemed to be: Keep an even keel on things this spring.

There’s one topic that a good friend of mine and I just can’t talk about anymore: ethanol. He blames it for many of the world’s woes—high food prices, soil erosion, the budget deficit, the Gulf of Mexico dead zone, and deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.  

On the first day of winter, it’s hard not to think about winter. And in winter, one's thoughts can turn to chores--chores you'd just as soon not do.

The Worst of All Around the Farm shows that even good farmers can have dumb ideas.

An independent turkey farmer in Illinois tells how higher grain prices have hurt his business and will add some cost to the Thanksgiving feast this year.

Talk in the "coffee shop" the morning after the election found farmers who were pleased with the results and optimistic about the future.

Farmers give tips for getting from place to place, staying safe, and being efficient while working alone.

Kip Cullers does it again--160.6 bushels of beans per acre--and his stardom keeps growing on the global agronomy stage.

A trip to discover my farming roots leads me back to the old world. What I found was an approximate place to call my own.

Field demonstrations help make the Farm Science Review a premier farm show in the U.S. It starts today!

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