Corn
Cutting costs can sometimes hurt your bottom line. Spending “extra” money can sometimes improve your margins.
Jon Stevens is an agriculture heretic: “Don’t argue with me about the awesome changes I’ve seen on my ground. You can argue with my logic and how I arrived there, but not the results.”
Weeds cost farmers money in ways such as yield loss, contamination, harboring insects or disease or even wear and tear on equipment.
Plan for a normal crop – hope for the biggest crop of your career – and then mitigate the risk of a drought or crop failure.
Check the stalk quality of D and L-1 hybrids. One has been hit by late-season disease, while high winds have taken a toll on the other.
Cornfields that had promised above-average or record yields, prior to being affected, are now more likely to produce average results at harvest.
When the government placed a bull’s-eye on 2.2 acres of Nick Smith’s cropland, the farmer was pulled into a bureaucratic rabbit hole and lost all farm program dollars, but emerged 10 years later to tell the tale.
The EPA is expected to recommend to the White House lowering the nation’s biofuel blending mandates below 2020 levels, in what would be a blow to the biofuels industry, two sources familiar with the matter said Friday.
Crops across much of the state look good heading into the home stretch but still need to be monitored for insects and disease.
Pro Farmer scouts pegged the Indiana average yield estimate at 193.48 bu. per acre on Tuesday, just slightly below USDA’s prediction of 194 bu. per acre.
In an effort to head-off some of the questions about Crop Tour sampling, here’s our answers to a few “Crop Tour FAQs!”
The iconic “Field of Dreams” cornfields will come to life in Iowa on Thursday, Aug. 12, as two MLB teams prepare to face off at the first-time event. NCGA is an official sponsor of the game.
On August 17, Pro Farmer scouts will be walking Illinois corn and soybean fields checking crop conditions and making annual yield projections.
On Aug. 17, scouts will sample fields in Indiana. What will they find in the Hoosier State?
On Aug. 16, scouts will sample fields in Ohio. What will they find in the Buckeye State?
Register for the “View from the Field: A Preview of the 2021 Pro Farmer Crop Tour” webinar which takes place Thursday, July 15 at 3 p.m. central.
Iowa’s corn yield estimate dropped by about five bu. per acre compared to 2019, soybean pods per 3X3 square barely squeaked ahead of 2019 by 40 pods.
As scouts prepare to hit the fields across seven states, our team of experts gathers to frame expectations ahead of this annual August ritual.
Disease pressure is building in parts of Illinois. Also, check out the agenda and register for Farm Journal Corn & Soybean College, set for Aug. 3-4.
Ongoing litigation contributed to the company’s decision. However, farmers and retailers will continue to have access to glyphosate for weed control, company officials say.
In soybeans, look for white mold issues this week. Initial symptoms generally develop in the R3 to R6 production stages.
Carl Lucas’ unlikely survival after falling into the steel grip of a PTO shaft is a chilling account of farm machinery danger: “Look at me and learn. Look at my missing arm and remember.”
A 2021 big-yield scenario suggests lower prices than seen in mid-July, but not low enough to leave financials stained with red ink.
Syngenta says the long residual control offered by Acuron GT will allow farmers and retailers to apply it in a post application before weeds can emerge and compete with the crop.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation that would increase access to gasoline with a higher ethanol blend, after a recent court decision knocked down a rule that had allowed expanded sales of E15.
Corteva Agriscience has a robust number of products it expects to introduce to U.S. farmers between now and 2023 for use in more than 10 crops.
Weather problems with Brazil’s second corn crop have sparked a spate of companies exiting their contracts, causing what some call the biggest wave of export cancellations for the world’s No. 2 supplier in five years.
Bean planting populations of 190,000 to 220,000 in washed out areas can help keep weeds from taking over.
Drought conditions are holding tight in the Pacific Northwest, Northern Rockies, Northern Plains, and Upper Midwest, according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor.
A perfect stand sets the stage for high ear count at harvest. But what if, despite your best efforts, a stand starts out troubled? Don’t give up.