Corn
You break, you pay. Fighting to save his farmland, Marvin Houin proved the government destroyed his yields.
While you can’t make Mother Nature send rain, you can review crop-rotation restrictions on chemistries you applied last year. Knowing that information can guide what crop you plant where this spring.
USDA weekly export sales released this week showed soybean exports fell 28% from the previous week. The story isn’t as dreary for corn, as corn exports have made a bit of a comeback from last year.
Chip Flory warns that as more crush capacity comes online, the soybean market might realize it waited too long to bid for 2024 soybean acres.
The survey uses records from ag retailers to measure the use of cover crops, nutrient management and conservation tillage and no-till by Iowa growers.
David Heublein won the conventional, non-irrigated category of the 2023 NCGA yield contest for the state. The amazing yield was grown with only one-third of the total rainfall his fields usually get in a growing season.
“These microbes are naturally occurring. They are on every plant that you would ever see, on the salad you eat, on the grass that you grow, on the trees that you look at, and everything in between,” Smith says.
The Internet video series “The Edge of Farming” follows growers using Challenger tractors in tough conditions.
With larger-than-expected yield revisions to both corn and soybeans, it leaves one burning question: which states grew such big yields in 2023? USDA NASS released maps and charts to help answer that.
Pay attention to the national corn yield, the number of planted corn acres and Brazil’s corn and soybean crops.