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These estimates are based on assumptions for normal weather through September.
The latest Crop Progress report from USDA-NASS shows declining conditions for corn and soybean crops, and delayed corn maturity.
Anytime corn is stressed photosynthesis is reduced, which limits carbohydrate production and increases risk of stalk rot. The rots you see could be different depending on your stress, wet or dry
Official Day 4 results from the Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour.
Field reports, data and scout observations from Ohio during the 2017 Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour.
Official Day 2 results from the Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour.
As Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour scouts make their way farther into Illinois they’re seeing crop stress, but far less than what they saw the past two days. Compared to Indiana and Ohio, Illinois is in pretty good shape, but yield still might fall short of a normal year.
The Dec. 12 WASDE report helped corn by raising ethanol usage by 50 million bushel, which reduced ending stocks—good news according to Jerry Gulke as he spoke to Host Pam Fretwell on Farm Journal Radio.
Experts share their organization’s viewpoint on commodity marketing and strategies producers can use to manage risk.
Official Day 3 results from the Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour.
Official Day 2 results from the Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour.
The third day of the 2017 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour featured scouts sampling fields along 12 designated routes from Bloomington, Illinois Iowa City, Iowa.
Day three of the Farm Journal Crop Tour had our group running north of Bloomington IL deadheading 20 miles north to start sampling. We then moved through counties going north and then straight west where we crossed the IA border at the Quad Cities. We sampled Woodford, Marshall, Putnam, Bureau, Henry and Rock Island on the IL side of the border and picked up samples in Scott, Clinton and Cedar on the IA side.
Veteran crop tour scouts Kurt Line and Jarod Creed saw plenty of potential for soybeans along their routes in Nebraska, if Mother Nature will cooperate.
AgDay’s Betsy Jibben talks with a father and son team of scouts on the 2017 Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour.
On the western leg of the Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour, scouts got started this morning with checking corn and soybean fields just outside Sioux Falls, S.D.
Recently, the regulations which mandate mixing corn-based ethanol into gasoline are drawing some criticism.
Chris Hawthorn, USDA-NASS corn expert, addressed the August crop report during the Grand Island, Neb., round up of day one of the Farm Journal Pro Midwest Crop Tour.
Look for sales opportunities entering September 2017, says Grant Shimek of Black Oak Financial in Festina, Iowa.
A 55-mph drive by your cornfields won’t cut it if you want to avoid surprises at the end of the season. Lace up your scouting boots and get into each of your fields to estimate yield.
The 2017 Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour kicked off in Dublin, Ohio, (a suburb of Columbus), with scouts sampling fields along 12 designated routes to Fishers, Indiana (a suburb o Indianapolis).
Is agriculture exempt from the permitting requirements of the Clean Water Act? Growers will have to wait a while longer for an answer to that question following a $1.1 million settlement in a landmark case this week.
The event celebrating sustainable agriculture practices and collaboration across the food supply chain is open to all farmers will be jointly hosted by the National Corn Growers Association and Environmental Defense Fund.
Mexican Elevators, Feed Mills Possibly Importing from South America Mexico is a deficit ag producer and for things like corn, imports are essential. While proximity and infrastructure has made the U.S. a logical trading partner, buyers here are now looking to the sea. As the feed goes out, the trains roll in to Grupo Gramosa, a commercial elevator and feed mill in Queretaro, Mexico. “We receive trains full of grain, mostly yellow corn,” said Jorge Castillo, operations manager of Grupo Gramosa. “We receive about five or six trains a month.”
Are farmers protected by the agricultural practices exemption of the Clean Water Act? That is the centerpiece of a court hearing getting underway in California.
Farmers throughout the south have seen big gains in statewide average yields. Most of the states in the region planted fewer corn acres, lowering total production.
The late-season irrigation know-how Olan Moore started using in Texas corn growers’ fields 40 years ago is common in the Lone Star state but still relatively unknown in the Midwest. Moore, owner of High Plains Consulting near Springlake, Texas, says the practice boils down to this: “When corn matures, and that milk line is one-half of the way down and you have 90-degree-temperatures-plus, if you don’t have 4.45” to 5” of soil moisture in the top 3’ of the soil profile you could lose up to 30- to 40-bu. per acre of corn,” he explains. “Just 2” to 3” applied through the pivot can make a huge difference on the tail end of the season.”
USDA lowered corn yields and increase soybean yields, despite poor crop ratings in many areas. Jerry Gulke provides his take.
Summer crop harvest is a few weeks away, and bin space could be a concern to some farmers.