Crops
Take the right steps to maximize the returns of variable rate technology on your farm.
These good bugs partner with soybeans to increase nodulation and fix nitrogen.
Insufficient sulfur is often misidentified as a nitrogen deficiency.
The impacts of the weather continue to be evident in our grain crops.
A derecho descended upon the Corn Belt last week, causing green snap and root lodging in corn fields across the area. However, agronomists and plant pathologists say that hope isn’t lost for the crop.
Heat, insects and disease generate concern.
Removing straw has at least one common denominator: exporting nutrients out of the field.
With soils drying and crops growing rapidly, make it’s a priority to apply N on those areas that haven’t receive sufficient amounts.
An Ohio State University expert recommends extra vigilance when scouting fields for soybean pests this summer.
Wheat fields have suffered considerably from the abundant precipitation.
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Noticing pale green and yellow leaves in your soybean fields? Here’s why.
The earlier wheat harvest in Illinois, along with good soil moisture, has some growers thinking about trying double-crop soybeans farther north than usual.
With only a few exceptions, flood soaked grain is not usable for feed or food.
Here’s a look at the top pathogens, pests and weeds affecting soybean production.
One “rural legend” is that when planting corn-on-corn, the big hit on yield is reduced in the second year and then goes away. Not true, says a plant physiologist.
The damage left by above-average rainfall is now showing up in wheat fields.
Flood damage to winter wheat is starting to show up in parts of the Midwest, and in some cases sections of, or entire fields are likely to perish.
When hail damage occurs early in the season, yield loss many not directly be as detrimental as you first think.
About half of Kansas—the nation’s top producer of winter wheat—is now suffering from severe or extreme drought, up from less than 20% two weeks earlier
The abnormally wet spring in the Eastern Corn Belt has not only hampered planting, but it also has prevented timely weed burndown applications.
Here’s a spreadsheet to help farmers evaluate the decision to accept a prevented planting payment or plant corn after the crop insurance deadline.
With wheat harvest a few weeks away, here is some advice for farmers that will double-crop soybeans.
A cooler and wetter summer should aid corn development and yields.
