November 2025
The November 2025 issue of The Furrow, published by John Deere, covers a range of stories on crops, livestock, and value-added farming. Topics include naked barley, peanut butter processing, deadstock composting, winter rhubarb, and efforts to preserve ancient plant varieties. It also profiles young farmers and shares practical insights on reading weeds to understand your soil.
Worth your time
A few stories from this issue that stood out to us.
Bring Out Your Dead
Shows how a deadstock composter can turn livestock into usable potting soil, offering a practical option for handling on-farm mortality.
Crunching the Numbers
Explains how peanut farmers add value by producing artisan peanut butter, useful for growers weighing processing opportunities.
Farm Naked
Looks at naked barley gaining ground and fans, helpful if you're considering a crop that's building interest.
What Weeds Say About Soils
Ties weed presence to soil conditions, a low-cost way to read what's happening in your fields.
Winter Rhubarb
Details how an Ontario farm uses early fresh rhubarb to fill the seasonal hunger gap, a model for extending your market window.
Protein Turning Heads
Covers how milk production has changed since the 1990s, relevant for dairy operations tracking protein trends.
Every story in November 2025
All 13 stories, with John Deere's own summary. Each one opens on deere.com.
The Furrow is published by John Deere. Koenig Equipment is an independent John Deere dealer and is not the publisher. Story headlines and summaries are John Deere's; the issue overviews on this site are written by Koenig Equipment. Read full stories at deere.com.
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