Crop Production
In this week’s Boots In The Field report Ken covers: Iron chlorosis in areas that got rain, growth standing still and slowed down metabolism in dry areas, and the catch 22 of dinging corn or killing weeds.
Farm Journal Agronomist Ken Ferrie announces the kick off of ugly corn week for a lot of folks. He covers who is most likely to see this and what some of the causes are.
By Nov. 1, landowners and farmers in Minnesota must have buffer strips—consisting of 16½ feet in width of perennial vegetation—in place around both sides of any public ditches on their land.
While the reports can swing markets, they’re created through a process that relies largely on windshield surveys, coffee shop talk and educated estimates from county Extension agents.
The Corteva Agriscience unit is reviewing its portfolio of seeds and pesticides. The company may sell some “tangential” crop seeds to focus on core products.
For high yields, corn crops needs nitrogen throughout the growing season.
USDA’s latest crop progress report is painting a grim picture for Kansas wheat this year with 13 percent rated good to excellent, and 44 percent is considered poor to very poor.
As if Americans didn’t have enough chicken on the menu already, production of the nation’s most-popular meat is headed for the biggest growth spurt in more than a decade.
In the 1980s, University of Illinois agronomist John D. Alexander devised a scale to determine a soil’s risk of nitrogen loss. It was based on the characteristics of natural soil drainage class, permeability, slope cl
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Several inches of rain are possible from the southern Rockies into the Upper Midwest later this week.
This lined up with trader ideas that these figures were likely headed higher.
Several inches of rain are possible from the southern Rockies into the Upper Midwest later this week.
The group pegged Australia’s wheat crop at an eight-year low.
Your analysts pull out the key data from today’s Crop Production and Supply & Demand Reports.
Cool, breezy weather for the Midwest and Northern Plains contrasts with a heat wave in the West.
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Meanwhile, a late-season heatwave for the Northern Plains contrasts with cool weather across much of the Midwest.
Get your day started with a brief rundown of key news.
This should help push the lagging crop toward maturity.
Hot weather on the Northern Plains contrasts with cool weather in the Midwest.
Our weighted Crop Condition Index shows improvement in most Midwest states offset a decline in soybean ratings for Iowa.
Comparing early-August greenness to the average reflects a fairly ‘average’ situation for much of the Corn Belt.
Our weighted Crop Condition Index reflected some improvement in western Corn Belt and degradation in the east, resulting in little net change for either crop.
Your editors highlight key elements of today’s Crop Production and S&D Reports.
Today, spotty showers stretch from the Missouri Valley into the Ohio Valley.
Showers and thunderstorms are expected to precede and accompany these fronts.
Our weighted Crop Condition Index dipped just 0.5 points over the past week, signaling rains stabilized the crop.