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The WeighRite program records commodity, weight in, weight out, time and date and then wirelessly sends data to your office computer.

The world’s largest retailer wants to find ways to improve efficiencies on the farm and through the supply chain so that consumers get low-priced, quality products.

The industry is looking to recapture lost markets with high-oleic oil.

POET, one of the nation’s leading ethanol producers, continues to develop new technology even as criticism mounts for an end to the federal ethanol mandate.

The New York native works as an extension agent educating people about consumer and commercial horticulture.

Agricultural and food companies are converting what were formerly thought of as waste products into profit centers, according to a new report, “Don’t Waste a Drop,”

Yield losses due to compaction in tracked areas can range between 10% and 20%.

Center-pivot irrigation systems, once thought to be suitable only for Kansas, Nebraska or California’s San Joaquin Valley, are going up in the eastern Corn Belt.

Novozymes has signed an agreement with Natural Industries Inc., which is researching how soil microorganisms can help combat weeds, insects and other pests.

The subsurface irrigation method, first adopted in the U.S. for vegetables, fruits and nuts, is supplementing and even replacing center-pivot systems for field crops.