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Today’s agriculture headlines and expert perspectives serving farmers, ranchers, crop consultants, livestock nutritionists and the entire U.S. ag community.

Producers faced with very dry soils basically have three main options when seeding wheat.
Here’s what you need to know if your corn was damaged by frost.
Take advantage of the elevated view from your combine cab to survey and assess the effectiveness of your weed management program this fall.
The dry soil conditions experienced recently over much of the Midwest may limit soybean yields.
Under especially dry conditions, the risk of carryover injury to wheat from corn or soybean herbicides is much higher.
This stubborn weed exhibits more resistance in the Midwest.
Precise adjustments and patience with groundspeed provide optimum performance from soybean platforms.
NDVI mapping and balanced fertility will do the trick.
In the near future, your crew might need one less tractor operator, thanks to Kinze’s Automation Project.
Extremely dry weather followed by later-season rain has left some corn with husks shorter than their ears, portending reduced grain quality at harvest.
Kinze’s forward-angled corner auger cart is the result of Jon Kinzenbaw thinking outside the box and externally mounting a 20” corner auger.
Here’s how to manage a crucial, but often overlooked, building block of high corn yield.
Thicker cornstalks and higher populations mandate careful adjustments of corn heads to minimize losses.
Company releases video of planter running without operator in the tractor cab.
Good grief…Goss’s wilt has infiltrated the eastern Corn Belt.
Keep these factors in mind as you weight the fungicide decision.
Baby your seed corn to help minimize damage.
The practice of counting corn sets the stage for higher yields.
New varieties and demand lend support.
Conventional hybrids offer benefits in light of resistance issues and traited seed costs.
An inside look at the movers and shakers of seed.
Avoid errors that slash yield even before you plant.
The recent increase in soybean aphid numbers means producers should step up scouting efforts.
Independent companies are carving a niche in the consolidating world of seed.
Can a new strategy reverse Syngenta’s fortunes?
Mega seed giant Monsanto battles back.
An independent company shows it can run with the big dogs.
Learn how Farmers Independent Research of Seed Technologies (F.I.R.S.T.) provides third party results of corn and soybean varieties across the Corn Belt states.
Germination testing validates quality and vigor.
U.S. farmer adoption of GM technology sets the curve.
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