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The Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour gets underway today, with four long-time scouts weighing in on what they expect to see in their own fields.

What Crop Tour years cling tightest to Chip Flory’s memory? Good, bad and unforgettable, Flory knows there is a meticulous method to the madness of Crop Tour.

Yield robbers in the form of thistle caterpillars are the surprise guests of South Dakota soybean fields as late September and early October harvest approaches.

Frank Forcella has designed a four-row organic grit blaster capable of obliterating weeds.

The promise of biotech mosquitoes grabs the headlines, but the same technology utilizing genetically engineered (GE) insects is being tested on U.S. farmland.

Mikey Taylor’s 110-acre block of cover crops has attracted pickers from multiple states and yielded a bounty of blessing.

The ratoon rice crop could be a near-total loss in Texas and Louisiana after the wrath of Hurricane Harvey subsides.

Hair-raising accounts of snakebites are a painful reminder that farmland is often a haven for venomous snakes.

The eastern half of the U.S. is plagued by 50 million acres of fragipan soil. Light in color, fragipan often starts at 1’ to 2’ below the surface and roughly averages 2’ to 4’ in thickness.

Just an hour and forty-fives south of the Iowa state line, 15-year-old Garrett Heil’s cotton is a testament to the determination of a remarkable farmer not old enough to qualify for a driver’s license. Heil has succeeded in producing cotton deep in the pocket of the Midwest.