Corn
The Clemson EMC Calculator can help you with wet soybeans. With strips and anhydrous applications, focus on building a good seedbed for next spring.
Make adjustments to your combine now to get more yield out of the field before more corn goes down and molds set in.
In the spring of 1975, Ed Hain rolled the dice and planted several six-row strips of corn and soybeans, kicking off 15-year average of roughly 50 extra bushels of corn yield per acre.
In 2017, Bob Recker kicked open the door on 60” row corn, and exposed a ton of questions on sunlight capture, weed suppression, cover crops, and much more.
Some Illinois farmers are combining corn with fins and scales this fall. No, that’s not a fish story.
On Thursday, AgriTalk celebrated “A Day of Ethanol.” A host of guests chimed in on how the industry contributes to the country’s economy and energy security as well as plays a role in addressing climate challenges.
In some instances, the speed of the combine and the speed of the header in combination are resulting in too much corn going out the back of the machine.
Harvesting and storing high-moisture corn can help producers get a jump on harvest; avoid drying costs; and put up a highly palatable, digestible, nutritious feedstuff.
There doesn’t appear to be much price relief on the horizon. Product availability could be limited as well, based on what China and Europe are experiencing.
Despite slowdowns in the export sales picture, actual exports are still running 26% ahead of the same time period last year, and with higher commodity prices, bulk export values are up 60%. USDA says that’s led by corn.
Ahead of USDA’s October reports next week, debate continued on just how big of a U.S. corn crop is being harvested right now. University of Illinois economists weighed in during the U.S. Farm Report College Roadshow.
Bayer is evaluating its legal options after Mexican health regulators for the first time rejected a GMO corn permit it was seeking, blasting the decision as “unscientific.”
Chris Edgington, a row-crop farmer based near St. Ansgar, shares his perspective on what drives most U.S. producers today.
An open letter to farmers from an Illinois farmer makes waves on social media.
University of Illinois gained ground in unearthing genetic code sequencing in non-target-site herbicide resistance.
Since 2008 Pro Farmer has designated veteran scouts on Crop Tour as Master Scouts.
A theme during the 2021 Pro Farmer Crop Tour, which ran Aug. 16-19, was record ear counts as scouts pulled samples in seven states.
The right timing of nitrogen aplications are important, but K-State’s Chuck Rice is digging deeper to learn how to reduce nitrogen losses by 50%, an impact that’s both economically and environmentally sound.
Plant health is making serious contributions to crop-yield outcomes this year. In some cases, the thanks is due to hybrid genetics while in others, timely fungicide applications paid for themselves.
The disease is shutting down corn crop growth prematurely in parts of Illinois, especially in fields with D hybrids. You may need to harvest those fields sooner than later.
Plan for a normal crop – hope for the biggest crop of your career – and then mitigate the risk of a drought or crop failure.
After the NASS acreage notice posted last week, it’s not just acreage adjustments that could be on deck in USDA’s September reports this week. USDA will also release results from its first field surveys.
From an American flag one year to a POW tribute the next, Wilber Meyer’s field artwork has grown. And for the 20th anniversary of 9/11, this year’s tribute is by far the biggest, extending beyond the Ohio farm field.
Grain shippers on the Gulf Coast reported more damage from Hurricane Ida to their terminals on Wednesday as Cargill confirmed damage to a second facility, power outages across southern Louisiana kept others shuttered.
Cornfields that had promised above-average or record yields, prior to being affected, are now more likely to produce average results at harvest.
According to USDA’s latest Crop Progress report, 60% of the U.S. corn crop is rated good to excellent, unchanged from last week. Illinois corn conditions continue to improve each week.
Drought dominated headlines in western Iowa last year during the Pro Farmer Crop Tour, and even as drought continues to be the talk of Iowa this year, fields in some portions of the state produced a different tone.
USDA’s August reports came with surprises. From a cut to the corn yield, to the revisions in export demand, the changes fueled prices both Thursday and Friday. So, where does the market go from here? Analysts weigh in.
Lush cornfields and a picture-perfect sunset. The first-ever MLB game played at the “Field of Dreams” put not only agriculture on center stage but all of Iowa, as social media was buzzing. And agriculture played a part.
The iconic “Field of Dreams” cornfields will come to life in Iowa on Thursday, Aug. 12, as two MLB teams prepare to face off at the first-time event. NCGA is an official sponsor of the game.