Agronomy

Agronomist Ken Ferrie is urging growers to grab their phones and start documenting the disease if they’re seeing it in cornfields, even if the combine is already rolling.
One Minnesota family is breaking with tradition and reserving fall fieldwork for acres where it can make the biggest contribution.
Ken Ferrie walks through the problems plaguing this year’s corn crop and shares his strategy for salvaging yield and protecting grain quality in storage.
Starting small on less productive acres gave Whalen Farms room to learn — and eventually cut fertilizer costs across 2,000 acres.
Crop protection, seeds and digital tools could be rolled into a standalone company by middle of next year.
Warm fall conditions could push back the window for safe, effective anhydrous and manure applications across parts of the Midwest, says Iowa State agronomist.
Recent university studies find that corn kernels usually hold their weight through the dry-down process while pinpointing the operational realities that lead to missing grain.
Innovative research is revealing thousands of untapped genes that could help breeders develop hybrids with better stress tolerance, grain quality and performance across diverse farming systems.
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