Crop Production
Fertilizer is always a big line item for your production costs. For 2023, plan on it being an even bigger chunk.
As the bullies of the plant world, weeds cost you time, money and energy. Which weed causes you the most headaches?
EPA believes the current pesticide approval system has major “unsustainable and legally tenuous” setbacks. Courts currently dictate ESA cases for the EPA, but this new workplan will allow the Agency to work alone.
Another surprise -- corn acres climbed rather than fell versus March intentions.
Russia’s Blizzard of the Century Is a Blessing for Wheat Fields
The trade is trying to figure out just how much corn will get harvested this year, which Pro Farmer’s Brian Grete is calling the “impossible puzzle.”
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.
With a warmer winter across much of the U.S., winter wheat might be greening up sooner than typical. As it greens up, so do dormant weeds or newly sprouting weeds and some insect pests.
The company says a U.S. judge’s rejection of its class-action proposal will have no impact on its commitment to Roundup or Roundup Ready and their availability for farmers and retailers.
EPA and NASDA ring-in on the current dicamba evaluation process while continuing to wave their yellow “caution” flag.
Bayer’s Louisiana glyphosate plant is back online, but the glyphosate shortage is industry wide as one Extension weed scientist says growers need to make multiple crop chemistry plans for the next two years.
Glyphosate was already in short supply heading into the 2022 planting season, but another black swan event is putting an even tighter squeeze on supplies.
As planting season quickly approaches, weeds are plotting their own entrance to the fields. Often an afterthought, experts say smooth bedstraw is a weed to keep an eye on.
It’s called the “king of weeds” and can be resistant to common herbicides, but before you can fight it you have to be able to identify it.
In order to get ahead of weeds, you need to know what weeds you’re up against. There are several weed identifying apps available, but how accurate are they? Researchers at MSU have the answers.
Sprayers are being outfitted with new products and configured in new ways to make applications quicker, cheaper and more precise.
Breeding advances brought an era of advanced disease control. The future of disease tolerance will use advanced breeding with targeted approaches that help maximize corn and soybean yield potential.
Use the fall season to get a head start on weed control for next spring.
Winter wheat planting has been slow this fall and several factors may help push prices higher into the new year.
Wheat planting is starting to wrap up for many farmers. On Farm Journal College TV, agronomist Phil Needham discusses one of the most common viruses in winter wheat production, barley yellow dwarf virus.
Soil moistures supplies in North Dakota appear to be in decent shape as spring planting season nears.
Corn and soybeans in good-to-excellent condition fell a few percentage points in the last week.
Andrew Mueth explained this was how he and his five brothers could preserve their 160-year-old family legacy. The family raises a wide variety of lettuce using an aquaponic system that was erected in a storage shed.
How you employ machinery and technology are keys in the Systems Approach.
Bestway Retriever trailer lifts and rotates combine heads or implements.
A passion for biofuel and bioproducts helped this Oklahoma farmer set a new Bonneville land-speed record
Prepare the field before converting to strip-till to set the stage for higher corn yields.
Spend time prepping harvest equipment before storage to reduce problems next fall
As of June 2, only 67% of the country’s estimated 92.8 million corn acres have been planted. That means farmers have 31 million acres of corn still to plant.
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