Most Americans don't seem to understand the risk on rural highways. For instance, 69 percent of Americans responded to the recent study indicating that they felt safe on multilane freeways in urban areas, while 79 percent felt safe on two-lane highways in rural areas....More

A new online app will help farmers and pesticide consultants track the number of insects in their crop fields so they can better control damage caused by insects and improve the use of insecticides....More

In Arkansas between 2005 and 2009, there were 1,284 hospitalizations for ATV-related injuries. The average cost for these hospitalizations was more than $26,000 each, according to the Arkansas Department of Health. Nearly 30 percent of these hospitalizations were for Arkansans under 19 years of age....More

The aerial application industry in some areas may be at a crossroads due to some of the current trends taking place and perhaps some of the new technologies coming along. We are going to need more ground sprayers, in my opinion, but we also must maintain a viable and healthy aerial application industry....More

Researchers are making progress in the continual effort to develop sustainable and cost-effective processes for harvesting and collecting biomass feedstock....More

A new NASA satellite scheduled for launch in 2014 — the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) instrument — will help USDA better predict agricultural productivity and forecast drought conditions....More

LightSquared — a massive communications company that says it will bring much-needed broadband coverage to rural America — has upset industries, commodity groups, municipalities and government agencies that lean heavily on GPS receivers. When the FCC auctioned off different amounts of the spectrum to run a variety of operations, LightSquared purchased the specific frequency in the auction. GPS frequency and LightSquared frequency are adjacent to each other....More

Investigations must look at a full range of scenarios to ensure GPS signals aren’t degraded by LightSquared technology. Costs associated with retrofitting or replacing GPS devices made unusable by LightSquared’s technology should be borne by the company....More