Soil water tension sensors are an effective tool in irrigation management, enabling producers to monitor soil water during the growing s...
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During growing seasons, irrigation can help farmers offset the impact of dry spells on crops. While farmers make large investments to employ...
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2018-21 Annual Report
Our goal with the Beginning Farmer program is to help new producers develop knowledge and critical skills...
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The Agronomic Crops Program delivers research-based integrated information to improve producer management decisions while increasing profita...
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Cross-hedging is a marketing tool that producers can use to manage price risk for commodities that do not have a futures contract.
Hedging ...
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With all the changes to the Worker Protection Standards (WPS), the Alabama Pesticide Safety Education Program put together the following inf...
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Adoption of organic practices in Alabama has grown in recent years. This growth has been paralleled by an increase in marketing oppo...
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The passage of the 2018 Farm Bill established industrial hemp as an industrial commodity—no longer a controlled substance—in the sta...
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The value of agriculture in Alabama is a significant component of the economy. In 2018, the USDA reported farm gate commodity sales totaled ...
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There may be times where cattle producers are challenged with less-than-ideal circumstances. Whether it is uncertain markets, bouts of sever...
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Learn about floodwater, risk assessment, contaminated crops, and what food crop producers can do to prepare for flooding.
Throughout the ...
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Dairy goat and sheep production is one of the fastest-growing agricultural industries in Alabama and the Southeast in general...
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