Crop Production
Creating an ideal seed bed and soil conditions can help offset the uncertainty and unpredictability of climate and weather.
Scientists advance corn genome sequencing at a frenzied pace as now 26 different lines have been mapped.
Four growers from Illinois, Indiana, Kansas and Colorado, sound off regarding weed control in 2021.
By: Katie McWhirter, Development Manager, Premier Crop Systems
USDA’s September Quarterly Grain Stocks caused major market reaction after USDA raised the soybean stocks number, with one analyst calling the move “unprecedented.” As a result, soybean futures dropped double digits.
The emerging bioherbicide market offers an alternative tool.
Ask about root type when selecting your corn hybrids.
A peculiar southeast Arkansas farmhouse conceals an obscure treasure of agriculture, grit, and ingenuity behind its walls—a 19th century steamboat.
Create a report card to evaluate your season-long decisions.
These biological products have the ability to increase germination, improve nutrient uptake, enhance nutrient-use efficiency and increase tolerance to and recovery from abiotic stresses.
Why are you a scout on Crop Tour? How do you use your Tour observations?
As the 2021 growing season comes to a close and the focus turns to 2022, truths about farming remain one of the few constants in life.
You’re not alone. The majority of your farming peers also suffer from one-year memories.
A team of researchers at Iowa State University is focusing specifically on the use of antibiotics in hog production and the possible impact on antimicrobial resistance. And the key may be conservation prairie strips.
Cutting costs can sometimes hurt your bottom line. Spending “extra” money can sometimes improve your margins.
Jon Stevens is an agriculture heretic: “Don’t argue with me about the awesome changes I’ve seen on my ground. You can argue with my logic and how I arrived there, but not the results.”
Careful notes and planning will put you ahead of weeds.
Fields wiped out in a matter of hours. Pests marching from grasses and into farm fields and pastures. It’s an armyworm infestation so intense it’s unlike anything farmers and entomologists in Ohio have ever seen.
Bayer still faces exposure from future claims. As long as glyphosate is on the market, there will be a potential for new claims to continue to rise.
Weeds cost farmers money in ways such as yield loss, contamination, harboring insects or disease or even wear and tear on equipment.
USDA’s first field-based yield survey of the year was released on Friday, showing the U.S. is on track to produce higher corn and soybean yields and production this year compared to what was reported in August.
In a rare move by NASS, the agency announced on Wednesday a possible adjustment to the U.S. corn and soybean acreage picture could come a month earlier this year. AgriTalk’s Chip Flory called the notice “unusual.”
Farmer beware: The future impact of herbicide-resistant weeds is a question within a greater Pandora’s Box.
Hurricane Ida hammered southeast Louisiana, as the Category 4 storm came with 150 mph winds. And as the system moves across the U.S., meteorologist Mike Hoffman says some areas could experience significant rainfall.
The National Weather Service shows isolated areas of Iowa saw more than 20 inches of rain during the month of August. But with much of the summer and month being dry for northeast Iowa, the change was a sudden switch.
The carbon market is poised for growth but farmers are still looking for reliable information, return on investment and assurances that they won’t be unfairly penalized or lose control over their operations.
When the government placed a bull’s-eye on 2.2 acres of Nick Smith’s cropland, the farmer was pulled into a bureaucratic rabbit hole and lost all farm program dollars, but emerged 10 years later to tell the tale.
The path to soil health profit has opened wider than ever before, expanded by the carrot of carbon, and aggressive growers may have means to benefit from multiple markets.
Dryness over the next six months in Argentina is expected to reduce the size of the country’s two main cash crops, corn and soy, while complicating navigation of grain cargo ships on the Parana River, analysts said.
100 mph winds were clocked in Oelwein, Iowa, which is located northeast of Waterloo. Chip Flory says driving through the damage, he describes fields and infrastructure damaged in northeast Iowa on Tuesday.