The 2014 farm bill eliminated the infamous direct payments program that gave farmers subsidies regardless of need. Instead of stopping there and making real progress, Congress created two new ...

PLC has three mentoring programs for students to explore as they navigate their journey in PLC and CU Boulder: PLC 2, where first-year students are paired with upperclassmen PLCers, the Alumni Mentor ...

For nearly 100 years, the history of the farm bill largely tracks the history of food production in the United States as the legislation evolves to meet the needs of its modern-day constituents – ...

Both the Senate and House GOP worked around the clock to get President Donald Trump’s massive tax bill passed this week. The One Big Beautiful Bill, which was more than 800 pages long, barely passed ...

When a PLC is used primarily to replace relays, timers, and counters, it's hard to beat the simplicity and usefulness of ladder diagram programming. Their ability to accept programming in ladder ...

In part one of this series, we looked at the PLC’s internal architecture, briefly discussed Ladder Logic programming, Human-Machine Interfaces, advantages of the PLC’s ability to react consistently ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency encourages agricultural producers to enroll now in the Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage programs. March 15, 2020 is the ...

Many crop producers in the Midwest were enrolled in the Ag Risk Coverage (ARC-CO) farm program choice on their corn and soybean base acres for the 2023 crop year. With the advent of much lower corn ...

There are various approaches to developing programmable logic controller (PLC) applications using experimental techniques. Modifying existing PLC ladder logic programs is another common approach ...

The enhanced version of the WideField3 programming tool is for the FA-M3V range-free multi-controller. Debugging and analysis of PLC programs can be time-consuming processes. Until now, equipment ...