Although planting might seem as if it were ages ago, its effects can show up now. While scouting corn in addition to checking ear size and kernel count, take a look at stand, roots and stalks, and re-examine your ears to determine what when right—or wrong—earlier this year.

Keep open lines of communication and provide incentives for a job well done, advises Bill Romshek, marketing manager with the cooperative Heritage FS in Gilman, Ill.

It’s quite possible that shoppers buying corn chips can trace those chips back to Vigo County, Ind.

It’s not too late to head to Heyworth, Ill. to experience hands-on, cutting-edge events that will increase your success for years to come. These events are led by Farm Journal experts, including Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie. This two-day event starts tomorrow, July 25.

Monday Syngenta announced it received Chinese approval for Duracade corn grain and processing co-products for food and feed use. The product received approval from USDA and EPA in 2013.

Bob Utterback, president and CEO of Utterback Marketing Services, doesn’t often get called a bull when it comes to grain marketing. But even for him, sometimes the occasion absolutely calls for it, he jokes.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), about half of the Indiana corn crop is rated good to excellent, and soybeans aren’t in much better shape.

Pay attention to time, discipline and communication, advises Texas A&M’s Mark Welch. He’ll speak at the 2017 Tomorrow’s Top Producer conference July 20-21 in Nashville.

After the USDA’s June 30 acreage report last Friday, some people were questioning its accuracy. The March 30 prospective planting report had corn and soybeans within 500 thousand acres of each other, and many anticipated some of those corn acres moving to beans after April and May made for one of the wettest springs on record. But the June report widened that gap to 1.4 million acres, with corn currently estimated at 90.9 million acres and soybeans at 89.5 million acres.

In the first of eight certified class actions against the company, jurors sided with plaintiffs and asked Syngenta to pay $217,700,000 in damages.