Pam Smith

Pam Henderson Smith was reared on a diversified grain and livestock farm in west-central Illinois where five generations of family still till and toil. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois and currently is a seed technology and production editor for Farm Journal.

Latest Stories
Nutrition is critical to high soybean yields -- but forget everything you learned about fertilizing corn.
Conditions look to be optimal for common waterhemp populations in 2010.
How to climb over the soybean yield wall
Drought in the southern U.S. stopped the soybean disease from migrating north, but farmers shouldn’t be complacent.
John Soper, Pioneer Vice President of Soybean Research, estimates that 90% or more of the SCN varieties on the market today contain PI-88788 type of resistance.
Learn the new management system for LibertyLink soybeans.
Tackle your worst soybean pest with the right stuff
This silent killer continues to spread
Late planting and slow development the corn crop puts it at risk. University of Illinois Extension Entomologist Kevin Steffey suggests scouting for Japanese beetles.
An age-old wheat pest is showing up again in fields.