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David Bennett
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Senior Staff Writer and Associate Editor, Delta Farm Press
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youth culture, Women’s Issues, Craft Beer , Beer, Music , Pop Culture, General News
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By David Bennett Verified| Farm Progress Verified The dominant soil type on Adam Chappell’s Cotton Plant, Ark., farm is a sandy loam. Chappell is persistent and insistent in trying to make that soil better. He’s found the main way to do that is the use of cover crops. “The reason we started in cover crops was we were looking for answers in dealing with pigweed,” says the smart farmer, who’s walking through a 150 acres of cover crop field that will soon be planted in soybeans. “We were getting hammered with pigweeds and spending a ton of money.
By David Bennett Verified| Farm Progress Verified Take a drive south of Helena, Ark., and you’ll likely run across some rather odd-looking, harvested soybean fields. Appearing to be tiger- or zebra-striped, the fields are part of a new effort – narrow windrow burning -- to control increasingly problematic weeds. “Pigweeds have been a problem for us for a long a time,” says Harry Stephens. “Before Roundup Ready soybeans we were having trouble controlling them with Treflan.
By David Bennett Verified| Farm Progress Verified The dominant soil type on Adam Chappell’s Cotton Plant, Ark., farm is a sandy loam. Chappell is persistent and insistent in trying to make that soil better. He’s found the main way to do that is the use of cover crops. “The reason we started in cover crops was we were looking for answers in dealing with pigweed,” says the smart farmer, who’s walking through a 150 acres of cover crop field that will soon be planted in soybeans. “We were getting hammered with pigweeds and spending a ton of money.
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Delta Farm Press
Griffin, Georgia, United States
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