New From NFMS 2009 

By: By Karen McMahon and Mike Boyatt

36-row planter THE NEW Early Riser 1260 planter with a 90-ft. width for 36 rows of 30-in. spacing is the largest planter that Case IH manufactures. The...

Raising the bar 

By: By John Russnogle

Not All toolbars are built for the rigors of strip-till. That's not a problem with a new front-fold toolbar built by Harvest International, Cherokee,...

Finessing a Fertilizer Deal 

By: From Guest Editor John Russnogle

What We've got here is a failure to communicate. It's a famous line from the 1967 movie classic Cool Hand Luke that starred Paul Newman. It's also a fitting...

All in one pass 

By: By John Russnogle

Clyde Cook still remembers helping his dad farm with a team of horses as a young boy. Today, he harnesses more than 500 hp with a Case Quadtrac 535 pulling...

Fertilizer's Ups and Downs 

By: By John Russnogle

There's a one-ton elephant in the room where fertilizer dealers and farmers are in a standoff. Dealers think the animal is worth close to $1,000, while...

FinOvation 2009 

By: By Karen McMahon, David Hest, Mark Moore

SmartStax Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences collaborated to produce a new eight-trait stack of genes in a hybrid that they expect to bring to the market in...

Safer ammonium-nitrate-based fertilizer 

Honeywell Announces that it has patented a new technology to develop a highly effective, safer ammonium-nitrate-based fertilizer with a significantly...

Injection applicator 

Blu-Jet introduces a 90-ft. injection applicator — the AT7000 37R30. With a 37-row (on 30-in. centers) unit, it features a 3,100-gal. tank with sump...

One-pass wonder 

Clyde Cook constructed this fertilizer/drill for the family Ririe, ID, wheat farm. He built a cart from a Yielder drill frame to carry a 3,000-gal. anhydrous...

N savings by the row 

By: By David Hest

Precision Agriculture technologies can help take a bite out of higher nitrogen costs. Just ask Mike, Bob and Jim Ellis, who grow several thousand acres...