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Matching yield goals to water supply lets you choose the right hybrids and populations for each management zone.

Use the following 10 questions to devise your harvest plan:

Brazil’s production of corn-based ethanol is set to exceed the 1-billion liter mark for the first time ever. That’s still just a small fraction of the South American nation’s 31-billion liter biofuel market,

University of Illinois (U of I) recently released crop budgets for three regions in Illinois based on historical returns and costs to discover dismal profit forecasts for the 2019 season.

North Dakota farmers have been planting a lot more soybeans in recent years. They typically ship to the PNW, but the US-China trade feud is affecting demand and basis.

One of the big questions this fall is how best to use on-farm storage. Which crop should you store?

University of Illinois (U of I) recently released crop budgets for three regions in Illinois based on historical returns and costs to discover dismal profit forecasts for the 2019 season.

Here’s how to protect your crop from excessive rainfall, drought and cold temperatures.

The world’s largest agribusiness expects the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to announce a renewal and an updated label for the herbicide dicamba in the coming weeks.

Five grant programs through USDA will award farmers, ranchers and other growers with $102.7 million. These grants will support locally-led projects that help expand markets for local food promotion and specialty crops.

Because of their height, pressure from grain and other factors, grain bins can cause severe injury and even death if proper safety procedures aren’t followed.

Floods unleashed across North Carolina by deadly Hurricane Florence are destroying crops after the storm wreaked havoc on cotton and tobacco.

Jim Schippert farms in the realm of the extraordinary. At 92, he grows corn and soybeans on the same land he worked as a child. Young farmer beware: Jim Schippert is still rocking the rows.

Nine of the 18 states that produce 92% of the U.S. corn crop are projected to have record corn yields this year.

Soybean harvest is underway, according to USDA.

Two Iowa ethanol plants owned by Green Plains will stop production, according to a report by Reuters.

On Friday afternoon, the team at Sloan Implement shared an almost unbelievable story.

High level of nitrates have been detected in forages this year in South Dakota and other states. Depending on where you live, it could be due to weather conditions, fertilizer, previous crop, or a combination.

Through a collaboration with John Deere and Granular, farmers can track what fields are making money, and what fields might need to trim some fat to be profitable.

While farmers in the U.S. boast their near-completion of 2018 wheat harvest, farmers in Canada look in envy. Earlier this week, Mother Nature dumped 6” of snow in northwest Alberta.

In this edition of “Farming on the Horizon,” we show you one farmer who even when unexpected storms jolt harvest plans. AgDay national reporter talks with Chris Naylor, a farmer from Clinton, North Carolina.

The RazorEdge 1300 Series pull-type disc mower conditioner is now available from Hesston by Massey Ferguson.

In an otherwise unassuming community lies the legacy of dozens of innovators who helped changed the way farmers and livestock owners operate.

Switching seed brands might not mean genetics change.

The National Hurricane Center reporting Hurricane Florence is intensifying and becoming a Category 4 storm. This comes in the middle of corn harvest for North Carolina farmers as they rush to harvest as much as they can.

Scientists have already warned that climate change likely will impact the food we grow. But new research is showing that climate change is expected to accelerate rates of crop loss due to the activity of insects.

Glenn Obermann has a winning recipe for quality hay. At the 2018 Missouri State Fair, Obermann took Champion and Reserve Champion awards in alfalfa and grass classes 4-8, and Champion in alfalfa classes 1-3.

Corteva Agrisciences’ Pioneer is introducing acreFLEX to help reduce input costs. Products in the acreFLEX line are said to achieve competitive yields, while planting 10% fewer seeds.

After gaining Environmental Protection Agency registration, Syngenta Force 6.5G will be available for the 2019 growing season. It’s a high-load granular corn insecticide that provides control of corn rootworm.

The history of wild pig hunts is filled with unusual stories, but the chase for a 750-lb. beast hiding in plain sight on a Mississippi farm ranks as a standalone account. Farming reality outshines fiction.

The history of wild pig hunts is filled with unusual stories, but the chase for a 750-lb. beast hiding in plain sight on a Mississippi farm ranks as a standalone account. Farming reality outshines fiction.

After this year's drought in Missouri it might be a good time adjust a forage program.

A drought that singed parts of Canada’s prairies will crimp wheat and canola output more than expected by analysts, government data showed, sending crop futures to one-week highs.

As farmers move toward harvest it’s prime time to check soybean cyst nematode populations (SCN).

Adjusting the rate of seed, fertilizer and pesticide row by row and even foot by foot across a field deserves a brand-new name: variable-input technology.

Case IH unveils latest updates to model year 2019 disc mower conditioners.

Climate Corporation is introducing Seed Advisor in a pre-commercial launch for about 200 farmers and 50 dealers in Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota.

Corn head adjustments help prevent cracked or chipped kernels in the grain tank, grain lying on the ground after a pass and whole stalks and trash moving into the machine.

Corn head adjustments help prevent cracked or chipped kernels in the grain tank, grain lying on the ground after a pass and whole stalks and trash moving into the machine.

No component on a combine functions independently; the header, feeder house, thresher, separator, cleaning fan and straw chopper all interact with effects that can reach all the way to planting.

All seven states showcased soybean crops that should produce higher yields than 2017, as scouts measured some of the most heavily podded beans ever seen on Crop Tour. The story was the same in corn, except for Minnesota.

No component on a combine functions independently; the header, feeder house, thresher, separator, cleaning fan and straw chopper all interact with effects that can reach all the way to planting.

With many areas across the Corn Belt looking at the possibility of an early harvest, bare fields could be breeding grounds for fall weeds. Before combines hit the dirt plan your method of attack against weeds.

Pro Farmer released results from its samples in Minnesota. The corn samples have an average yield of 178 BPA. Pod counts from Pro Farmer’s tour by a 3 x 3 sample total 1,090

After two long years of waiting, Bayer and Monsanto executives sit together at the table as one team. Until last week, the companies could not share business information.

Forage analysis can be a useful tool to remove some of the mystery concerning the hay that producers will feed this winter.

It's a wet and soggy morning in Indiana as crop scouts there get Day 2 of the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour underway.

It's a wet and soggy morning in Indiana as crop scouts there get Day 2 of the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour underway.

Scouts on the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour have to wait until Tuesday night to hear the overall average yield estimates for Nebraska crops based on samples they collected.

Missouri farmers are eligible to access emergency water sources for livestock and to hay nearly 900 acres of state-owned ground.