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  • 1 week ago | agupdate.com | Sue Roesler

    GLADSTONE, N.D. – Taiton Axtman, 21, a 4-H ambassador and senior at North Dakota State University (NDSU) with a double-major in weed science and ag economics, deftly turned the tractor pulling the drill around at the end of the rows. He was planting pinto beans at his uncle’s farm near Fessenden, N.D., and usually helps with the growing and harvest season in the summer. “It’s going great, and it is so nice to get back in the fields after the big rains last week (late May).

  • 1 week ago | agupdate.com | Sue Roesler

    In late May, on a sunny production week, a Deere autonomous tractor pulling a 50-foot 2660VT Variable Intensity Tillage machine, emerged from behind the rolling hills of Morton County, with no one sitting in the cab as it moved forward through the corn stubble, leaving behind a smoother field. “No one is in the cab operating it,” said Jim Campbell, equipment specialist lead for Gooseneck Implement. “We operate the autonomy from the Operations Center mobile app standing outside the machine.

  • 2 weeks ago | agupdate.com | Sue Roesler

    On May 28, Talon Metals Corp. announced it had found its site to develop the Beulah Minerals Processing Facility on 256 acres of the former Westmoreland Mining coal mine near Beulah, N.D.The venture will be a first-of-its-kind opportunity for collaboration across energy, mining and mineral industries, converting the former coal mine into a critical minerals facility, according to a Talon spokesperson.

  • 2 weeks ago | agupdate.com | Sue Roesler

    Farmers are turning to post-emergent herbicides, but concerns about certain weeds, such as waterhemp, last until harvest. Waterhemp continues to be a major weed problem for soybeans in North Dakota, with confirmed resistance to glyphosate, group 2 herbicides, and group 14 herbicides in many counties.

  • 2 weeks ago | agupdate.com | Sue Roesler

    WYNDMERE, N.D. – Fields at the Klosterman farm have dried out after a stretch of warm weather swept through the region. After the rain events in Richland County on May 15-16, Carson Kosterman, who farms with his dad, Tom, and wife, Haley, discovered more rain had fallen on the fields than they originally thought, with some fields receiving nearly double what others received.

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