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6 days ago | 
enidnews.com | Nick Rex
CHETOPA, Kan. — East of Chetopa, Kansas, all the fields are covered in yellow buttercups. Ronnie Johnson inches the tractor forward, motioned by his brother, Loyd. “Whoa now, that’s good,” Loyd waves. kAm“yFDE 6J632==:?’[ :E =@@<D =:<6 E9:D H:== 36 72:C=J =6G6=[” #@??:6 D2JD] p ?6H 82E6 DH:?8D @? E96 6?5 @7 E96 EC24E@C 3F4<6E 7@C<] %96 =2DE 82E6 E@ E96 3F==A6?
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1 week ago | 
mankatofreepress.com | Nick Rex
Jared Faurot’s blue jeans are getting sprayed under the drip hose sprinklers.
Faurot stands beside a center pivot tower, fiddling with a spigot, aiming it closer to the ground. He turned water on this field two weeks ago and ever since the wheat has sprung up and started marching toward harvest. One of the last conversations Faurot had with his grandpa in the hospital was about a new irrigation technology on this field.
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2 weeks ago | 
farmtalknews.com | Nick Rex
East of Jefferson, Kansas, Marty Reichenberger is spraying a corn field with herbicide. He pauses after the first field to refuel while fellow farm hand Zack greases the hydraulics on the John Deere R4044. Six weeks after planting corn, Reichenberger times the herbicide application with the emergence of noxious weeds — mainly Johnson grass and pigweed. Traveling up to 16 miles an hour, the sprayer can cover 100 acres an hour, 150 in fields without terraces.
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3 weeks ago | 
salemnews.com | Nick Rex
Jared Faurot’s blue jeans are getting sprayed under the drip hose sprinklers. Faurot stands beside a center pivot tower, fiddling with a spigot, aiming it closer to the ground. He turned water on this field two weeks ago and ever since the wheat has sprung up and started marching toward harvest. kAm~?6 @7 E96 =2DE 4@?G6CD2E:@?D u2FC@E 925 H:E9 9:D 8C2?5A2 :? E96 9@DA:E2= H2D 23@FE 2 ?6H :CC:82E:@? E649?@=@8J @?
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3 weeks ago | 
farmtalknews.com | Lauren Dossey |Nick Rex
Previous Virtual fence: Technology for keeping animals where you want… Traditional fencing, such as permanent boundary fences made … Next Up Duckling down It pains me to write this... well, type this, you see I suff… This past weekend marked the 50th anniversary of the Four State Farm Show, and ag enthusiasts from far and wide gathered in Pittsburg, Kansas, to celebrate.
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3 weeks ago | 
joplinglobe.com | Nick Rex
Warren Newby taps a bucket on a feed trough, luring four heifers through a gate, then pushes each by its tail toward a cattle squeeze chute. Today's chore is putting new ear tags on the replacement heifers. With the nimbleness of a young man, Newby reaches for a chute lever and heaves. He catches the heifer's head perfectly in the headgate, and in one poetic motion pulls the tailgate closed and cranks the overhead squeeze lever.
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1 month ago | 
farmtalknews.com | Nick Rex
Warren Newby taps a bucket on a feed trough, luring four heifers through a gate, then pushes each by its tail toward a cattle squeeze chute. Today’s chore is putting new ear tags on the replacement heifers. With the nimbleness of a young man, Newby reaches for a chute lever and heaves. He catches the heifer’s head perfectly in the headgate, and in one poetic motion pulls the tailgate closed and cranks the overhead squeeze lever.
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1 month ago | 
kokomotribune.com | Nick Rex
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of stories produced by CNHI News about climate change. Jared Faurot’s blue jeans are getting sprayed under the drip hose sprinklers. kAmu2FC@E DE2?5D 36D:56 2 46?E6C A:G@E E@H6C[ 7:55=:?8 H:E9 2 DA:8@E[ 2:>:?8 :E 4=@D6C E@ E96 8C@F?5] w6 EFC?65 H2E6C @? E9:D 7:6=5 EH@ H66<D 28@ 2?5 6G6C D:?46 E96 H962E 92D DACF?8 FA 2?5 DE2CE65 >2C49:?8 E@H2C5 92CG6DE]k^Am kAm~?6 @7 E96 =2DE 4@?G6CD2E:@?D u2FC@E 925 H:E9 9:D 8C2?5A2 :?
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1 month ago | 
cleburnetimesreview.com | Nick Rex
Jared Faurot’s blue jeans are getting sprayed under the drip hose sprinklers. Faurot stands beside a center pivot tower, fiddling with a spigot, aiming it closer to the ground. He turned water on this field two weeks ago and ever since the wheat has sprung up and started marching toward harvest. kAm~?6 @7 E96 =2DE 4@?G6CD2E:@?D u2FC@E 925 H:E9 9:D 8C2?5A2 :? E96 9@DA:E2= H2D 23@FE 2 ?6H :CC:82E:@? E649?@=@8J @?
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1 month ago | 
bdtonline.com | Nick Rex
Jared Faurot’s blue jeans are getting sprayed under the drip hose sprinklers. Faurot stands beside a center pivot tower, fiddling with a spigot, aiming it closer to the ground. He turned water on this field two weeks ago and ever since the wheat has sprung up and started marching toward harvest. kAm~?6 @7 E96 =2DE 4@?G6CD2E:@?D u2FC@E 925 H:E9 9:D 8C2?5A2 :? E96 9@DA:E2= H2D 23@FE 2 ?6H :CC:82E:@? E649?@=@8J @?
