Crop Production
Premium quality chicken litter key to achieve yield boosts.
Fluorescent marker technology could be a major weapon in weed battle
New report looks beyond hardware tools and details a turn toward data integration.
Varieties, management and irrigation pave road to soybean yield crown.
An unprecedented scale of seed information is available to growers. Rolling back the curtain on seed performance is no longer the sole realm of breeders and scientists, but is wide open for growers and agronomists.
NRGene unravels crop genomes to produce accurate, cost-effective DNA sequence
When buying and transporting used equipment, pigweed has been known to tag along for the ride.
Neonicotinoid loss would carry mammoth consequences for farmers
The weed battle merges herbicides with cultural practices
What do Bt-resistant pink bollworms found in fields in India have to do with U.S. agriculture? A lot.
When buying seed, yield potential, disease resistance and stress tolerance are top of mind. Seed companies also add seed purity to that list.
Management zones are the foundation of a good soil fertility program. Uniform fields are a rarity, and growers need to manage land according to soil variability.
Cover crops are a bustling industry within agriculture, but, the cover crop drumbeat is also met with skepticism or opposition, and some producers point toward the fallacy of blanket acceptance.
Spilled blood never dries. Roughly 175 years after the mysterious death of Jane Story Perryman, the farming matriarch rests in forgotten solitude.
The nitrogen-fixing power of soybeans is a dream for corn and other crops – but what if you could harness that power through microbes? Sound Agriculture is introducing SOURCE that claims to do just that.
Prior to Bt technologies farmers lost $1 billion annually to CRW—in the form of chemical costs or actual yield loss. With resistance to traits on the rise, it might nibble its way back to a billion-dollar price tag.
With renewed focus on no-till and reduced tillage, how can you experience the greatest financial and positive environmental impact? Do you have to cut back on tillage every acre to maximize the benefits?
Written by: Brenton Rossman, Retail Account Lead for Premier Crop Systems
Depending on what stage of the crop’s lifecycle the weeds emerge, growers could see weaker, suppressed weeds that don’t steal as much yield, or strong, huge weeds that wreak havoc.
By now, you’re familiar with the idea of the 4 Rs of nitrogen. Is it worth the hype? Test plots indicate these factors, combined with specific hybrid characteristics can have huge yield implications.
The nitrogen that stays put. The innovation farmers have been waiting for.
In a matter of a few short years, you can undo more than 100 years of work. How? For each 1” of topsoil that is eroded, it takes at least 100 years to regenerate.
This year marked some intense challenges and opportunities for farmers. Enjoy this look back at the key issues farmers faced.
3 Reasons to Change Your Preplant Weed Control
We’ve all had one of those horrible, no good, very bad days. Well, if you need to see someone else’s misfortunes to make yours seem not-so-bad, check out Farm Journal’s “What a Day!”
As a Missouri farmer is in for a fight of his life, a local ag retailer went to work, deciding to travel to farms, pick up grain from any farmer who wanted to donate for “Combining for Curtis.”
Plan for a normal crop, hope for the biggest crop of your career and then mitigate the risk of a drought or crop failure.
These strategies limit your financial exposure.
In a world where resistant weeds run rampant, one chemical company is bringing relief to corn, soybean and rice farmers. FMC will introduce a novel rice herbicide and a corn and soybean herbicide.
Late Wednesday night, a U.S. appeals court rejected a federal regulator’s permit for dicamba herbicides, including Engenia, FeXapan and XtendiMax.