Crops
This recent sea of very warm water means cooler land temperatures surrounding the Gulf will be a long time arriving this fall. It even has an implication for Midwest farmers.
Your profit potential starts each year with the seed you choose.
Farmers can use humidity charts for their area to assess when the disease could hit their corn crop as well as the optimum time to make a fungicide application, says Missy Bauer, Farm Journal Associate Field Agronomist.
Nonconformity is nature in Bill Jones’ triple-cropping world. “This is about ROI, hitting yield averages, and taking care of my soil,” says Jones. “Home runs are fine, but they’re for somebody else to chase.”
With high fertilizer costs and potential product shortages, you may be considering back-to-back years of soybeans.
Congratulations to Christopher and Nate Riggers for being named a 2022 Top Producer of the Year finalist. Take a virtual visit to their Idaho farm to learn how they’ve doubled barley revenue per acre in two years.
Congratulations to Seven Springs Farms, a 2022 Top Producer of the Year finalist. A virtual trip to the diversified Kentucky farm will shed light on why Joe Nichols does not fall in love with assets.
How do you decide what precision and digital agricultural technologies to adopt?
Grain prices continue to rally as Russia ramped up attacks on Ukrainian ports on the River Danube. But agricultural economists and markets analysts point out the situation still hasn’t reached a worst-case scenario yet.
Your crop insurance decisions are a key part of your risk management plan for this year.
While the moon might not look like a fertile field, it is capable of producing plant life. That’s per a recent study by University of Florida scientists who have grown plants in soil collected from the moon.
Almost all types of fertilizer are trending lower in price. So is now the time to buy?
With heat forecast to top 100 degrees in places, combined with the expectation for little to no rain, crop conditions could deteriorate and the biggest risk in the western and central Corn Belt.
Last year, farmers who bought nitrogen fertilizer early received lower prices. Will the same pattern play out this year?
Fertilizer prices have softened from the record highs seen earlier this year. Are you ready to buy? Take our poll!
The U.S. corn crop is consistently declining in condition. Currently 57% of the crop has a good or excellent rating, which ties with 2019 for the week’s worst corn condition rating since 2012.
To commemorate his 60th trip around the sun, Duane Hansen set a new world record.
Use this guide to understand the vegetative and reproductive stages of soybeans.
The results are in. Around 400 farmers answered the AgWeb poll of: What Is Your Top Weed Nemesis on Your Farm?
From growing tensions between Ukraine and Russia to forecasts for hot and dry weather across the Midwest, grain prices have been on a volatile run. Analysts think the volatility could heat up again next week.
19 months after an EF4 tornado tore through the town, the deadliest in Kentucky’s history, the Mayfield community faced massive flooding this week after nearly 12 inches of rain fell in 24 hours, setting a new record.
With corn harvest complete, is your grain sitting unsold in the bin or have you sold it?
Control production costs through mindful input spending this year.
Define your goals and desired ROI for conservation practices on your farm.
High input costs, excessive disease pressure or commodity prices — any of these factors could be pushing you to plant back-to-back corn or back-to-back soybeans.
You are about to plant the most expensive crop of your career. But just how much more expensive?
“What I look for as an agent and as a farmer is if I can get close to 2.5 times or more return on coverage versus extra premium,” says Jamie Wasemiller with Gulke Group and Wasemiller Insurance Agency.
The bare-bones simplicity of chaff lining may offer farmers with resistant weed control for pennies on the dollar. Chaff lining is showing major promise in ongoing Iowa field trials.
On-farm trials cut to the heart of ROI. Five growers from Minnesota to Mississippi sound off on the value of on-farm research.
Stop questioning if soil health pays. Instead, ask yourself how to measure the dollars and cents of your investments in soil health.