Latest News From Crops

Art’s Way Releases Auger

Art's Way Manufacturing Inc. has produced their first portable grain auger.

Watch for the Invasion

Our new series highlights the infestations headed to your field

Sulfur Slips Away

Clean air, higher yields strip sulfur

Weed Cures

The search is on for herbicides with new modes of action

Piece Together The N Puzzle

Target efficiency with a solid foundation for variable-rate nitrogen

An Herb Gone Wild

Garlic mustard has a choke hold on native forest plants

Market Strategy

Will we find this summer that the worst of the worst occurred before the stimulus programs had time to have a material effect, setting the stage for overstimulus and inflation?

Crop Tech

Bumper Bean King, Refuge Revelations, Rush the Season

Test Plot Technology

Tools add value to data gathered from the field

Control Issues

Learn the new management system for LibertyLink soybeans.

Fly-Free Zone

An age-old wheat pest is showing up again in fields.

A Good Start

Field tests evaluate planter down pressure and row spacings.

Crop Tech

Set your mark for corn yields, Volatile Times in the fertilizer industry.

Wheat Journal

Latest advancements in the wheat realm

Heat-Tolerant Cotton Shows Promise

Breeders promise that new varieties will be better suited to hot weather

Control is in Outside Hands

Spring is just around the corner, and it’s not too soon for me!

New Yield-Boosting Tools

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index maps can help any size operation grow better crops.

Crop Tech

Conquer Corn Nematodes, Get Flexible.

Wheat Journal

Decreased Winter Wheat Acres, Ag Sustainability Report, New Variety Fights Ug99.

Products with Purpose

Drought-tolerant corn included in a flood of new Monsanto products is coming down the pipe.

Test Plot Roundup

Learn about our latest data from teh Farm Journal Test Plots examing seed quality and insect management.

Updated Unverferth Grain Cart Scales

Unverferth offers two new models of grain cart scales--the 410 and 510.

USDA''s Feb. 10 Crop Report

Jerry''s analysis of what the report means to farmers.

From Fridge to Field

The real secret behind the latest in corn trait technology.

Engineered Blueprint

Family-owned company driven by founder's innovation.

The Nitrogen Balancing Act

Supplying your corn crop's critical early season nitrogen needs can make or break your yield.

On The Fence

In these uncertain times, pulling the input trigger is nerve-racking.

Wheat Journal

Winter Hardy Varieties, Viral Victory, Avoid Head Blight Headaches, Down With Diseases, Go Go Genome, Biotech Wheat Vote

On The Corn-Yield Fast Track

Can the infrastructure keep pace with souped-up yields?

Market Strategy

Sharpen your business plan.

January 2009 Crop Tech

Approval for a new corn trait, Monsanto's new corn technology, Five Bean Soybean Pods, Spray-on Drought Relief.

Twin-Row Tricks

No doubt various management factors are involved in corn yield increases, but two of them are twin rows and careful planting.

Corn's Big Challenge

Seed company scientists talk about doubling our corn yields. Can it be done?

A Flood of New Products Coming from Monsanto

Monsanto announced today that it has made major strides toward delivering the world's first-ever drought-tolerant corn product to farmers.No need to get all hot and bothered just this very instant, but the reality of drought-tolerant crops may be closer than you think.

Pioneer Aims for Corn Yield Advantages

Frank Ross, Pioneer vice president, North America Operations, discusses the challenges farmers experienced during the last growing season and his company's corn yield advantages.

Crop Tech

John Endsley would wrap each soybean that passes through his seed house in bubble wrap if it were practical. Instead, the manager of Monsanto Company's Mason City, Ill., soybean plant oversees a mechanical bulk-handling system

New Products

New products are featured. The BioDieselMaster from Biodiesel Solutions is a fully automated, continuous-flow biodiesel production system that delivers up to 1,000 gal. of ASTM-grade biodiesel per day (42 gal. per hour). It accepts a variety of feedstocks, such as low free fatty acid vegetable oils (canola, camelina, soy, etc.) and animal tallow.

Wheat Journal

Wheat in the Big Apple, New Fungicide Portfolio, Watch Out Ug99, and a BioTech Trait Can Improve Crop Efficiency

Production Journal

Top Producer seminar and meet our new Farm Journal Team Members

Temporary Slump?

Supply/demand lacks drama, doesn't point to disaster

2009 Cottonseed Supply Tightens

A global glut of cotton means that far fewer acres of cotton will be planted in 2009, squeezing what is already a tight cottonseed supply.

Cottonseed Supply Tightens

A global glut of cotton means that far fewer acres of cotton will be planted in 2009, squeezing what is already a tight cottonseed supply.

Tailgate Talk, Utility Tractors Hit the Road

John Deere utility tractors hit the road, What a Day!: Jackknifed, and Stat Rack: Guinness World Record wheat harvest

New Products

Welder for field and shop, new John Deere mower decks and more!

Market Strategy Weekly Corn Chart

Corn weekly price chart shows a downtrend.

Before You Park It

Spend time prepping harvest equipment before storage to reduce problems next fall

Wait to Harvest: Observe Your Pre-Harvest Interval

Whoa! Don't be too anxious to harvest if you sprayed a pesticide this fall.