Crops
This year marked some intense challenges and opportunities for farmers. Enjoy this look back at the key issues farmers faced.
The choices you make in regard to weed control impact more than just your fields, they affect your neighbors and ultimately entire community.
Climbing corn prices is a welcome sign for farmers, but not good news for ethanol plants already strained. As ethanol demand struggles to recover, one Iowa plant says it will cease ethanol production for good.
The tradition of naming the Beltwide Cotton Specialist of the Year continued on with a virtual flair. Seth Byrd, Oklahoma State University Extension Cotton Agronomist, received this year’s cotton specialist award.
While biologicals aren’t new to the ag industry, there is still trepidation about them. Farmers wonder if they work and what they actually do—all of which impacts their likelihood of trying these products.
3 Reasons to Change Your Preplant Weed Control
When outlining your budgets for the rest of the year, accurately account for costs and decide if you want to spend a little more on soybean acres to boost yields.
Information from end-of-season yield map meetings can give you the insights you need to make valuable adjustments to your 2021 cropping plans and improve your growing season and yield outcomes.
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!”
An Indiana woman gets a second chance to spend time with friends and family after losing both her arm and a leg in a horrific harvest accident.
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.”
USDA predicts 89 million soybean acres in 2021. Some analysts believe that number could go even higher.
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.
Corn, wheat and soybeans saw a price pop this week on news China made a big purchase of U.S. corn. USDA confirmed China bought 686,000 MT of corn for delivery to China, 371,000 of which was in purchases of old crop.
Late Wednesday night, a U.S. appeals court rejected a federal regulator’s permit for dicamba herbicides, including Engenia, FeXapan and XtendiMax.
Chances are, you’ve had one of those days…where everything just goes wrong. 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!”
Introducing Reviton™, a non-selective herbicide with a new proprietary active ingredient for preplant burndown of broadleaf and grass weeds in corn, cotton, soybeans and wheat.
Larry Thorndyke works to improve his farm so this excited sixth-generation boy can farm the same land his grandfather, and grandfather’s father farmed.
In this interactive eBook, Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie offers advice on how to review your equipment balance sheet.
University of Florida researchers have developed corn that can thrive in nighttime heat.
Cornell scientists are developing worm-like, soil-swimming robots to drill into the dirt—and unlock a treasure trove of data on root growth and more.
Current dry weather conditions could play havoc with the 2021 crop. Take proactive steps now to manage through these conditions, advises Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field Agronomist.
Here are recommendations for first-year corn and continuous corn.
Farmer mitigates soil challenges with gypsum.
A bad decision with nitrogen won’t cost you yield; it will cost you cold, hard cash.
Learn how to save labor, fuel and equipment costs with this conservation practice.
Cover crops continue to work their way onto fields across the Midwest. While the benefits might be well known, so are the challenges in developing an on-farm system to work in each situation.