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Angela Faye Martin’s husband Brent had already left the house to scout a future hike for the guide service they run together when she got a message from a friend. Helicopters were flying the Duke Energy transmission line that goes up the Cowee range, spraying herbicide along the corridor. The...

Last August, Bruce Potter, plant pathologist at the Southwest Research and Outreach Center office in Lamberton, Minn. said, “So far it’s been a slow year for aphids.”  This year, Potter is saying much the same (and plant pathologists don’t like to prognosticate). Potter’s July 16 newsletter read: “Soil moisture is...

With the harvest season fast approaching, Peoples Company Land Managers are working to finalize plans for fall 2020 cover crops.  Extending living green cover after the cash crop is harvested has numerous benefits to farmland: reduces erosion, keeping valuable topsoil on the farm increases organic matter increases soil biodiversity and...

The Eastern Plains of Colorado, divided by the South Platte River and Arkansas River valleys and backdropped by the Rocky Mountains, is one of the more scenic places in the United States. At an average elevation of almost a mile, the density altitude climbs rapidly in the summer. The “high”...

Do you ever get an email in your inbox and think: “Who the heck wrote this, and what were they thinking? How did this person get hired to write this copy, and how did this get approved by their team?” Below is the email screenshot from a company called BeeProtected regarding its...

The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Air Tractor Inc. (Air Tractor) Models AT-250, AT-300, AT-301, AT-302, AT-400, AT-400A, AT-401, AT-401A, AT-401B, AT-402, AT-402A, AT-402B, AT-501, AT-502, AT-502A, AT-502B, AT-503, AT-503A, AT-504, AT-602, AT-802, and AT-802A airplanes. This proposed AD was prompted by reports of...

It’s not every day when a scientific discovery published in the Physical Review Letters has relevance to your farm. A basic science discovery announced recently at Purdue University is the exception. Osman Basaran in Purdue Chemical Engineering figured out how to calculate surface viscosity of a droplet by looking at...

While it’s sometimes hard for funerals to measure up to the treasured memories, that would not work for the funeral of crop duster pilot Paul Gould, and certainly not for the people of Webbers Falls. Paul Gould's aerial crop spraying business held a prominent place in the community, helping farmers...

JACKSON, Wyo. — Teton County Weed and Pest District (TCWP) is initiating its “Cheatgrass Mitigation Program” beginning in August. Cheatgrass is a highly invasive non-native annual grass with a quick growing life cycle giving it a competitive advantage over native vegetation. The mitigation program is a valley-wide, expansive effort with...

Environmentalists filed a complaint Wednesday with state's inspector general over aerial spraying of insecticide to control mosquitoes carrying Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE). The disease is rare, but can be deadly. There were 12 human cases in Massachusetts last year, six of which were fatal. Mosquitoes have already tested positive for...