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Agriculture This Week: Where will science take crops?

If you are an agricultural producer you have to be fascinated with what science could provide in terms of crop production in the year ahead.

Actually, when you consider the sheer volume of ‘science’ being undertaken the potential of advancement on most fronts of human endeavour are at the very least fascinating to consider.

But, farm production advancements bring it closer to home, and stand to be a positive for that important sector of the Prairie economy.

The science of farming really is going in directions which would make a science fiction writer like Isaac Asimov proud.

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For brothers Robert and Sid Prescott of Idlewood Farms in Burke County, 2026 hasn't felt like farming — it's felt like survival. Reporting from Waynesboro, John Holcomb visits the Prescott's 850-acre Bermuda grass and beef cattle operation to hear firsthand how one of the most unpredictable seasons in recent memory is testing everything they've built.