LE SILLON

A John Deere Publication

Issue: Summer 2022

Agriculture, Sustainability

Reaping Environmental Rewards

Food and Ag businesses are leading stewardship efforts.

Agriculture, Education

Cranberries

They don’t actually grow in water.

Specialty/Niche

What It's Actually Like to Keep Bees

A beginner’s experience.

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arching trellis with vines growing on it

RURAL LIVING

Gardening to New Heights

Go vertical to put fun back in gardening. 

an anole climbing up a vanilla bean plant

AGRICULTURE, SPECIALTY/NICHE

Magic Beans

Vanilla grower nurtures a flavor of the tropics.

a woman outside at sunset looking at a tablet

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aerial view of vineyard

AGRICULTURE, SPECIALTY/NICHE

Wild Idea

Native yeasts are the ultimate expression of terroir.

Delmarva Oasis in Delaware

AGRICULTURE, SUSTAINABILITY

Dream Big

Ambitious easement program grows to landscape scale.

retired winery owners in vineyard with dog

AGRICULTURE, SPECIALTY/NICHE

Retiring in the Valley

Trading steep streets for rolling hills.

LIVESTOCK/POULTRY, AGRICULTURE

Big Passion on a Tiny Farm

Anne Sweazy-Kulju is no stranger to turning her imagination into reality. A novelist and entrepreneur, she and her daughter, Laura Kulju, dreamed of raising livestock on a farm of their own—and they made it happen.

A terrible car crash and 15 back surgeries pulled reality into sharp focus, and Laura—a former veterinary technician and enthusiastic snowboarder—moved from the high desert community of Bend, Oregon, to the state’s coastline near Pacific City to help her mother recover.

Together, they built a carefully selected and bred show herd of Nigerian Dwarf goats, a herd of New Zealand rabbits, and flocks of Toulouse geese, Grimaud Pekin ducks, and two kinds of quail.

farm store in dry valley below single distant mountain

AGRICULTURE, RURAL LIVING

Dream Garden to Garden Hub

A rural garden that grew and grew.

vineyard workers tending to grapevines

SPECIALTY/NICHE

Building Together

Nova Scotia wineries collaborate to create new appellation wine.

cattle farmer standing among cattle in feedlot

LIVESTOCK/POULTRY, AGRICULTURE

Keep Them Cool

Feedlots adapt to the summer heat.

high tech grain handling system

AG TECH, SUSTAINABILITY

High Tech Organic

Almost everything you think you know about organic farming is wrong.

farmer drilling for soil core samples

AGRICULTURE, FARM OPERATION

Tapping Stored Nitrogen

Nitrate-N sampling is better than ever.

cattle in far off field of wildflowers

LIVESTOCK/POULTRY, AGRICULTURE

Bird-Friendly Beef

Cattle and conservation co-exist in this Audubon program.

AGRICULTURE, SUSTAINABILITY

Farm to Faucet

Rathbun Lake is a shimmering jewel located in south-central Iowa, an 11,000 acre lake that was dedicated in 1971 by President Richard Nixon. It didn’t take long, however, for folks in the area to realize that this precious gem deserved to be protected.

John Sellers is a conservation-minded farmer and serves on the Wayne County Soil and Water District board of commissioners. He recalls that the historic floods of 1993 served as a call to action.

“There was an alarming rate of sedimentation coming into the lake,” he says. Sediment and phosphorus were a threat, not only to the lake—which had become an economic engine of its own, hosting more than a million visitors a year—but also to drinking water. The lake is the primary source of water for the Rathbun Regional Water Association (RRWA), Iowa’s largest rural water system.

farmer couple smiling

RURAL LIVING

Farmers Find Unexpected Internet Fame

Going viral was all in good fun for these now-famous farming faces.

Innovation Hub in Austin, Texas

AG TECH

Tech@Work

John Deere Launches Innovation Hub in Austin, Texas

John Deere Leadership at CES

AG TECH

A Great Showing at CES

John Deere Wins 2022 Innovation Awards.

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The Furrow Summer 2022

About The Furrow

The Furrow was first established by John Deere Company in 1895 as “A Journal for the American Farmer.” The goal of the magazine remains the same - to tell stories that people enjoy reading and provide them with knowledge that they can apply in their operations.

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