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Along with too much moisture, high numbers of corn flea beetles are posing an early-season concern. Ferrie advises checking your Stewart’s wilt bacteria rating on hybrids. There’s no treatment option for infected corn.

A handful of planter manufacturer reps share several tips and lookouts to ensure the planter is working properly this spring.

Two consecutive years of drought has been devastating for farmers in West Texas, and with forecasts of a transition to La Niña, economists and cotton leaders say it will force even more cotton farmers to call it quits.

Chip Nellinger, Blue Reef Agri-Marketing, says it was a true money flow or “Get Me Out” day Friday. While it caused a short covering rally in grains, he’s not sure it can be sustained.

Commodity and financial markets saw another volatile week. What’s triggering it? Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group points to a couple possible clues.

Grains sharply higher Friday, as livestock, financial markets and many other commodities melt down. It was a money flow or “Get Me Out” day says Chip Nellinger, Blue Reef Agri-Marketing.

House Ag Democrats are facing internal tension and uncertainty as they struggle to formulate a response to the GOP’s farm bill proposal.