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In Oklahoma, winter wheat is often grown for two purposes: cattle grazing and grain production. Brian Arnall explains when farmers stop grazing and what determines the final decision.

On Michael Thompson’s farm, the farming system is inseparable from economics. Weather, available moisture, and field conditions determine what makes sense in a given year, while machinery must, above all, do its job reliably.

During my visit to the Lviv region, I was impressed by the weather. It was more like the southern part of Ukraine – sunny and windy, which makes the soil quickly lose moisture and dry out. However, the plants on the fields of AGROosnovy Farm, both winter and spring, seem to be oblivious to these weather disasters. All crops are …

Driving by this field, it’s hard to imagine that anything has been sown here. It’s even harder to imagine that a crop has been sown here, the sprouts of which everyone is used to seeing only on a black field. However, it is already a common practice for no-tiller Vitaliy Rudchenko to see sugar beet sprouting on untreated soil covered …