How low can a farmer go? Plant 30,000 seeds per acre, or a lean 20,000, or even a bare-bones 5,000, and still maintain profit levels? Across three years of ongoing field trials, Thomas Hairston is ...
Growers may be interested in wide-row wheat production due to reductions in equipment inventory (lack of grain drill) and to allow intercropping of soybean into wheat. With funding from the Ohio Small ...
If you’re on Twitter, you’ve likely seen a lot of buzz around wide-row corn (44-inch or 60-inch) with cover crops seeded between rows. The goal is to space the corn rows out to provide more light for ...
VIDEO: WHILE many grain growers have shifted to wider row spacings to accommodate stubble retention, new research has revealed the move could be costing crop yields through lower water use efficiency.