Crops
It’s one crop that’s growing in popularity - and at times - defying popular opinion. Hemp is expected to be in the 2018 farm bill, and some growers hope it helps remove the stigma around the crop.
Farmers who understand how corn hybrid ear type and corn plant structure can work together are on the road to being able to make better hybrid selections for their fields.
A southeast Missouri farmer has been indicted on federal charges of illegally applying dicamba and damaging crops in neighboring fields.
Batey Farms Looks Beyond the Bin, Attracts Urban Consumer
Organic production jumped by 2% to an estimated 6.5 million harvested acres in 2018. In addition, the number of organic farms increased 3% to a total of 17,648 in the U.S. alone.
This has the winter wheat crop off to a solid start.
Here’s how to protect your crop from excessive rainfall, drought and cold temperatures.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acting administrator, Andrew Wheeler, is testifying on biofuel during his first hearing as EPA’s top post.
This week’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE), combined with tariffs to China, caused grain prices to take a nosedive. Some farmers are reaching the end of their rope as frustration turns to anger.
Farm Journal Agronomist Ken Ferrie of Crop-Tech Consulting is back after a week of vacation, he and covers the gamut in this week’s Boots In the Field Report.
Look beyond the eye candy that makes the job easier and focus on precision practices that save money and boost yield.
Spotty rains brought some relief, but in this week’s Boots In The Field Report, Farm Journal Agronomist Ken Ferrie covers why the much needed rains have also caused some issues.
What you see in the field right now is a good indication of how your corn is going to pollinate.
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
Get your day started with a brief rundown of key news.
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.