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Strong winds, above-average warmth and months of worsening dryness created a “perfect recipe” for wildfires across the Southern Plains, scorching pasture and farmland — with little moisture relief in the forecast.

The way you show up for your team on the farm shapes how work gets done and the kind of environment your crew experiences every day.

Here are resources for those looking to donate to ranchers recovering from recent wildfires in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

How you manage the mix in cornfields can determine whether the nitrogen feeds your crop or disappears into thin air.

Barbell, beer can and banana are descriptive names for abnormal ear shapes that show up every season and cause yield losses — problems growers could avoid more often by tuning into three factors researchers refer to as GEM.

With 86% of North American feed ingredient samples testing above the risk threshold for mycotoxins, livestock may face stacked biological stress.

Brad Kooima with Kooima Kooima Varilek says the USDA Cattle on Feed report was providing some support. The on feed number came in at 98% of a year ago, placements were at 95% which was below trade estimates and marketings were at 87%.

After a dry, unusually warm January, key Western river basins are in severe snow drought. With irrigation allocations at 0%, one Colorado producer warns tough planting decisions could reshape this year’s crop mix.

Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group, says he was impressed with the outlook USDA provided on biofuels and trade at the Ag Outlook Forum, but does not agree with their acreage projections.

Shawn Hackett with Hackett Financial Advisors says the market fears that China will use the ruling as leverage to get out of its trade framework struck with the U.S. on Oct. 30 and that could include its soybean purchase commitments.