The Dec. 12 WASDE report helped corn by raising ethanol usage by 50 million bushel, which reduced ending stocks—good news according to Jerry Gulke as he spoke to Host Pam Fretwell on Farm Journal Radio.

Experts share their organization’s viewpoint on commodity marketing and strategies producers can use to manage risk.

Official Day 3 results from the Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour.

The third day of the 2017 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour featured scouts sampling fields along 12 designated routes from Bloomington, Illinois Iowa City, Iowa.

Day three of the Farm Journal Crop Tour had our group running north of Bloomington IL deadheading 20 miles north to start sampling. We then moved through counties going north and then straight west where we crossed the IA border at the Quad Cities. We sampled Woodford, Marshall, Putnam, Bureau, Henry and Rock Island on the IL side of the border and picked up samples in Scott, Clinton and Cedar on the IA side.

On the western leg of the Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour, scouts got started this morning with checking corn and soybean fields just outside Sioux Falls, S.D.

Veteran crop tour scouts Kurt Line and Jarod Creed saw plenty of potential for soybeans along their routes in Nebraska, if Mother Nature will cooperate.

AgDay’s Betsy Jibben talks with a father and son team of scouts on the 2017 Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour.

Recently, the regulations which mandate mixing corn-based ethanol into gasoline are drawing some criticism.