Latest News From Clinton Griffiths

Drag the planters out of the shed, fire up the seed tenders, update the field maps and start your engines. This season, as you enjoy your packed lunch at 10 a.m., ponder the lessons learned from the hardwoods.

After a 30-year career, her advice to someone just getting started is to be an effective communicator, which includes developing listening skills, and invite people to the table to take in different perspectives.

Researchers and agronomists are using a creative way to study corn plant root structures and hope it will lead to a new understanding of how below-ground root systems can impact yields and plant stress.

Whether it's planting, spraying, soil sampling or harvesting, new tools are turning the information you collect into actionable insights.

As someone who enjoys technology, Kaden Sweeney says he's geared toward numbers. New this year, the family operation plans to control the grain cart from the combine for ease and efficiency.  

If a bin of unpriced corn is your biggest mistake, know you aren’t the first and won’t be the last farmer who missed a pricing opportunity. Embrace the outcome and set your sights on making 2024 your best year yet.

In addition to traditional row crops and cattle, Lindsay Baneck operates a direct-to-consumer produce business in Wisconsin. These days, her goals are geared toward success and sustainability.

As president and CEO, Ryan LeGrand's job is to develop relationships and export markets for U.S. grain farmers. His advice for those who are just getting started in their career is a bit unconventional.

Working and training with her mother, in 2019 Hallie Shoffner took the lead as CEO and continues to focus on growing the business, searching for opportunities in specialty crops and value-added production.

What’s the most challenging thing about running a legacy brand? “The biggest challenge is being pigeonholed. Everyone expects us to recreate the past, but the future doesn’t look like what we were," Lamar says.

After years of letting negativity and discouragement hold him back from full-time farming, the first-generation Kentucky farmer decided to take a leap of faith.

A few decades back, stopping at a Stuckey's during a holiday road trip wasn't uncommon. Today the company is eyeing a business comeback by focusing on its farming roots and leveraging quality Georgia pecans.

The flow of ag commodities around the world is changing demand for mechanization. The latest innovations to do more with less were on display in Hanover, Germany.

Indiana farmer Russ Radtke celebrates his ag roots while building a legacy on the football field as the second-winningest high school football coach in state history.

At 96 years young, Paul Dotterer still runs the chopper during harvest season on his family's dairy farm - and he enjoys every minute of it.

North Dakota auction company announces new record-high land sale for cropland in the northeast corner of the state at $17,500 per acre, while in Iowa farmland sales are starting to cool off.

The U.S. Department of Energy believes solar could provide up to 40% of the country’s electricity by 2035. However, it’s estimated 5.7 million acres of land will be needed.

Roughly 60% of work-related deaths on ATVs involve agriculture. This harvest season, as teams gopher from one field to the next, here are some safety considerations to help stay off the incident report.

Now's the time to start making notes of tar spot pressure, field by field and hybrid by hybrid, says Missy Bauer, Farm Journal field agronomist.

Remember: Weeds that never emerge have no impact on yield.

While farmers find the technology useful, especially for spot spraying and targeting fields in less-than-ideal conditions, weed scientists are buzzing with more caution.

Grain bins are some of the most valuable tools on the farm. While the traditional design hasn't changed that much, the technology in and around the bin continues to evolve.

What weeds do you hate and why? As a native of New Mexico, Clinton Griffiths spent hours alongside his dad, a hoe and bucket in hand, ridding their property of goatheads, a prickly plant with no proven useful purpose.

Equipment makers are rolling out machines, infrastructure is being installed, batteries are getting better, and it might soon be possible to generate enough electricity on-farm to power your fleet without fuel.

The electric economy is ready to roll into town this decade as battery technology improves, renewable power generation expands and automakers buy in to a future powered by something other than gasoline and diesel. 

As Americans, we are free to debate the budgets, the policies, the processes and purpose of our role in this conflict. I can’t, however, ignore the humanity paying the cost. 

Experts agree there’s potential in the jug if used correctly and under the right expectations. Here are eight tips experts say can maximize your ROI of biologicals this growing season.  

“When Ukraine fails, in terms of their ability to produce agricultural products, the world becomes less safe,” says Howard Buffett, global philanthropist and Illinois farmer.

In celebration of Black History Month, John Boyd Jr. shares his passion for farming and making his voice heard

How will big South American production impact U.S. producers who are preparing to plant a crop this spring? 

AI is not our buddy at the coffee shop who thinks he knows more than he does. Computer AI sophistication is advancing rapidly and will no doubt arrive at the farm gate in short order. 

It didn’t start with the swing of an ax in the Amazon or by an explosion in Kiev. Both contributed, but the shifts in global grain flows is a multifaceted prism through which the future is continuing to evolve.

As La-Niña ends, meteorologists say the next two months could determine whether we see a drought like 2012 or a return of regular rains across the lower 48.

Can you smell that? It’s the aroma of fresh opportunities.

Iowa farmer Ben Riensche is excited about the opportunities current margins are providing to reinvest in his operation. He provides these tips for spending money during good times.

The outlook for 2023 grain prices is difficult to pin down given a host of unknown global outcomes. Economists say the new year could bring major moves in either direction, including higher prices.

This holiday season may you enjoy time with family enough that the gifts gather dust in perpetuity on your very own gifting shelf. 

It's hard for grain farmers to gift their harvest bounty but a Nebraska company is helping change that and providing a way to share some Christmas spirits.

For years farmers have focused on banding starter fertilizer 2x2 at planting — 2" over and 2" below the seed. While the process works, delivering nutrition to a plant’s roots sooner might be worth the effort. 

Mayfield's largest employer, Pilgrim's Pride continues to invest in its workforce and the community following the deadly December tornado in 2021 even donating more than $1 million to rebuild homes and infrastructure.

Damage remains along the tornado's 220-mile path nearly a year after the deadly tornado tore through Mayfield, Kentucky. Farmers and ag businesses are still working to restore their operations.

Over the past two years cash rental rates are up 6% nationally, according to USDA. Here's how to be proactive with this big cost for your farm.

With just six quick notes a year, you can provide real, relevant information to your landlords. 

Supply chain hiccups, part shortages and shipping delays seem to be more common than not in 2022. However, as you’ll see, that won’t last forever. 

From a first harvest to what will likely be a final 50th season, farmers are celebrating moments of Thanksgiving and marking milestones to last a lifetime.

At our house, kindness is expected. It’s the floor, the standard, the basic cable package. The direction their life or careers go beyond that point is the pursuit of excellence. 

Ag and food technology is an attractive industry for innovators, which means an endless bevy of options for farmers looking to deploy the latest solutions.

The push to make our world smarter is a never-ending carousel of products and technological adaptations rolled out one iteration and software update at a time.

Nitrogen might be the king of yield, but if a corn plant is sulfur deficient, it won’t reach its maximum potential.

Each steady and purposeful step Reese Burdette takes in the livestock show ring is quite literally a miracle.