Corn
As farmers reach for higher yields year after year, a handful of farmers across the U.S. pushed their yields to be crowned contest winners. Each year, the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) hosts a contest to see what farmers can accomplish.
Amid new tensions with China, the Obama administration on Thursday launched its 15th challenge against Beijing at the Word Trade Organization, escalating a long-simmering debate over practices that U.S. officials say limit American farmers’ ability to export rice, wheat and corn to the Asian powerhouse.
Brazil’s farm economy will rebound in 2017 with a record harvest pushing up grain exports and expanding the country’s livestock industry, according to analysts’ forecasts.
Lack of rain in forecast may hurt supply.
2017 looks to be bearish soybeans, but bullish corn. This week’s U.S. Farm Report analysts break down the dynamics of the market and why producers need to have a plan.
A new service announced today gives farmers the chance to compare with other farmers the prices they pay for seed.
There wasn’t anything to get excited about in regard to USDA’s monthly WASDE and Crop Production reports. Though, that was to be expected, says Jerry Gulke, president of The Gulke Group.
Farmers looking to control disease and fungus in a variety of crops will soon have a new fungicide option in their arsenal.
Purdue University College of Agriculture developed a website with information they say will provide clarity into these organisms.
A Facebook photo shared by U.S. Farm Report shows a big difference between Trey Kimbrell and other kids his age. While they might be playing video games, Trey spends his days driving combine and grain cart, soaking it all in before school starts.
Just in time for Thanksgiving, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency boosted soybean futures Wednesday by raising 2017 biofuel mandates to record levels.
NCGA President Wesley Spurlock shares his family’s story and what it means to be lead the organization.
The farm community is buzzing with farmers’ new-found ability to see what their neighbors pay for the same bag of seed, thanks to new products released by Farmers Business Network and Granular. Many farmers are fueling their seed decisions based on this new information.
Building on human health risk claims found in the Notice of Data Availability (NODA) pre-publication, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving toward revoking all food tolerances for the insecticide chlorpyrifos.
South Dakota’s soybean crop expected to be record-size
Harvest is coming to an end, and farmers will be looking at their nutrient programs to get better crops and higher yields in 2017.
Claiming the class action lawsuit over its Viptura brand is built on “fundamental errors,” Syngenta filed an appeal of a federal judge’s ruling allowing the class-action litigation to proceed.
The Hoosier state has 87 percent of corn and 91 percent of soybeans out of the ground, but this year didn’t come without its weather extremes.
Even with less from China, world supplies will be biggest ever.
USDA will release its latest supply and demand report Wednesday, and markets are getting ready for adjustment from yield expectations.
Ethanol plant near Mitchell to celebrate decade of operation
With the USDA predicting an average corn yield of 173.4 bpa and 51.4 bpa for soybeans this fall, some farmers in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota are wishing they have more bin spacing.
Closing market commentary from Pro Farmer Editors.
Eastern Iowa is well into harvest but some pockets are waiting for fields to dry and high water to go down after torrential rains hit the upper Midwest two weeks ago.
One of the more intriguing age-old farming myths is that on a quiet moonlit night, you could go out to your cornfield and hear the crop literally growing. Turns out that’s not true – at least not exactly.
Corn and soybean prices reached their height in 2012 but have since plunged, resulting in a 42 percent drop in farm income.
Farmers say herbicide-resistant weeds are a growing problem, costing time, money and management.