Spring 2025
The Spring 2025 issue of The Furrow, published by John Deere, mixes practical agronomy with stories about farmers and rural life across North America and beyond. Readers will find guidance on cover crops, yield goals, and crop rotation alongside profiles of ranches, farms, and niche agricultural ventures.
Worth your time
A few stories from this issue that stood out to us.
Cereal Rye to the Rescue
It looks at cereal rye as a do-all cover crop and a defense against pigweeds.
Calibrate Yield Goals
It shows how to prioritize profit by using soil health to reduce input costs.
Why Wheat Works
It explains how a cereal grain adds agronomic diversity to crop rotations.
Masters of Marbling
It covers raising the bar on pork flavor and tenderness through marbling.
Stacking Enterprise
It profiles a ranch that taps every income stream possible, from brewery to bison.
More Eyes the Better
It weighs how hiring an agrologist can help your bottom line.
Every story in Spring 2025
All 20 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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