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If you’re wondering which cover crop might be best for your farm, you’ll want to check out the Cover Crop Chart from the USDA’s Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory.
Blockbuster crop likely will place a lid on feed grain prices
Drought hurt crop production for Canadian wheat and canola this year, according to Statistics Canada’s latest Production of Principal Field Crops report released Friday, Oct. 2.
According to a recent Stats Canada crop survey, extremely dry fields in Alberta and Saskatchewan have cut into the yield potential of both crops.
But Dr. Lee Tarpley, AgriLife Research plant physiologist, is studying what specifically affects rice plants under extreme environmental conditions.
A Wisconsin farmer plants 400 acres of sunflowers near the highway as a touching and stunning tribute to his late wife.
Renewed farmer interest in grain sorghum advanced acreage nearly 24% this year.
The monsoon’s revival from mid-July has boosted India’s rice and soybean crops, curbing food price gains and easing concerns of shortages.
There’s little doubt that deploying cover crops can protect against soil erosion and bolster soil health. But new research from the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) looked into potential yield benefits as well.
Rice farmer Boontham Chei-pa switches on a water pump in the evenings to irrigate his parched field from a canal in Thailand’s central province of Suphanburi.
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