Remote sensing is a broad classification that includes aerial imagery with airplanes and satellites as well as sensors such as the ones used to detect nitrogen deficiencies. This article deals with aerial imagery taken from airplanes.

Ben and Stella Elgorriaga know firsthand how difficult some situations can really be. In the early 1980s, they went through a rough stretch financially. That lead Ben and Stella to take seven steps to make their business and family stronger.

Think you can't lose money in these days of double-digit soybean prices? From a pest management standpoint, higher prices and spiraling input costs make it easier than you'd think. Avoiding these four pest management mistakes will help you pocket the profit potential that 2008 packs.

A decade ago, Chris and Sherry Vinton, who run 1,000 beef cows near Whitman, Nebraska, supplemented their herd with a high-quality commercial mineral mix. The cost of $550 a ton seemed high. So they began asking questions and researching alternatives.

Four-dollar corn thrills many farmers. None of them are in the pig business. There aren't many alternatives to expensive corn for pigs, but one of them is the ethanol by-product distillers' dried grains (DDG).

"Last year the corn and soybean markets peaked in late February and fell sharply lower into early May. The markets rallied back giving farmers a second chance in June," writes market analyst Alan Kluis. "If you missed the new crop price protection opportunities during the rally in February 2008, make sure you do not miss a summer weather scare to get crop hedges or contracts in place."

"Ups and downs and pendulum swings are part of life and business. Corn, soybean, and wheat farmers have emerged this past year to the bright sunshine of record prices," writes Editor-in-Chief Loren Kruse. "Livestock and poultry farmers feel the economic storm clouds gathering all around them. Forecasts call for severe profit challenges over the next year or two."

"Gut instinct tells me current land values are unrealistic. Some readers might take severe exception to me questioning the rising price of land. Putting the kibosh on high values seems un-American in a way," writes Machinery Editor Dave Mowitz. "The time is way past due to talk about the 800-pound gorilla in the room."

Check out this month's great farmer ideas, including a new way to pop the topper off your pickup and a way to preserve air hoses in your shop. Learn how you can submit your ideas for a future edition of All Around the Farm.

Evaluators take a fleet of all-terrain and utility vehicles to the trail and track. Learn what riders and engineers had to say about the utility vehicles they tested in this exclusive evaluation.