Corn
Crop experts say the recent heat and humidity that has hit Illinois is ideal for the state’s soybean and corn crops.
Tornadoes and high winds swept through Indiana on Wednesday, damaging buildings and crops.
There’s little argument that Indiana corn farmers have been in a bit of a slump. The Hoosier State saw corn yields clock in at 150 bu. per acre in 2015, with the three-year average slightly above that at 155 bu. per acre. But is the state capable of higher yields in 2016?
Investing in a small motor can tell you a lot about problems on your planter ahead of planting season, says Bill Bauer, B&M Crop Consulting.
Malawi is so desperate for food to stave off a hunger crisis that the government may buy a type of corn that the country mainly uses as livestock feed.
There’s a dearth of corn needed to feed all of the hungry chickens in Brazil, the world’s biggest exporter of the meat.
The flow of nitrates from farm fertilizer and treated wastewater into the Illinois River that contributes to a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico has fallen, a new study says. Researchers believe one likely factor, the use of newer, more robust varieties of corn, could make the drop a long-lasting one.
Hail across many pockets of the Midwest means some farmers face tough replant and crop insurance decisions.
As a part of its most recent marketing efforts, NASCAR released a promotional video professing its love for American ethanol.
The fund-led rally in soybeans is presenting a selling opportunity. While not as strong, there’s also a selling opportunity in the corn market on the corrective rebound.
AgWeb.com will have full coverage of USDA’s April reports, following the 11 a.m. Central Time releases.
USDA’s March planting intentions were much higher than expected for corn and lower than anticipated for soybeans. This was likely the highest acreage figure the market will see for corn and the lowest for soybeans this year.
AgWeb.com will have full coverage of USDA’s March 9 reports, following the 11 a.m. Central Time releases.
Too much supply, not enough demand and limited prospects for a significant improvement in export demand leave the grain and soybean markets grasping for bullish news on the weather front. A summer weather rally may happen, but I wouldn’t use pen if writing that into your marketing plan.
Curtis Thompson, weed management specialist, has compiled information about seven corn herbicides newly available for the 2016 growing season.
Weekly Export Inspections Report highlights.
Chip Flory to host new market-oriented radio show.
Cancellations are not a surprise given ongoing issues with unapproved GMO varieties.
FOMC announces additional $10-billion-per-month reduction in asset-purchases.
Jamie Walter, CEO and president of Whiskey Acres, was in search of ways to diversify his family’s 2,000-acre corn and soybean operation when inspiration hit: What if they used their grain as a feature ingredient in premium spirits such as vodka, whiskey and bourbon? In 2011, they decided to see if they could make an on-farm distillery work.
Records are made to be broken, and the record for high-yielding corn has been broken once again, according to the National Corn Growers Association 2015 National Corn Yield Contest results.
Cases claim the company caused losses by marketing MIR162 before Chinese approval
A refinery designed to make ethanol from cornstalks, leaves and cobs — not the grain itself — opened Friday in central Iowa, the culmination of a $225 million construction project and millions more invested in its engineering and design.
Behind a palace so colorful and rich in history is one lone grower.
Bernie Sanders’ admiration for corn-based fuel is winning him some praise in unusual places.
The market is bracing for a slight reduction in USDA’s corn yield estimate in Friday’s crop production report with disappointing yield reports already coming in from southern corn-producing states.
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., the world’s largest processor of corn, posted second-quarter earnings and sales that missed analysts’ estimates after a decline in ethanol margins and crop export volumes.
A seed production company says about two dozen of its corn detasselers were sprayed with fungicide from a crop duster working on a neighboring western Indiana field.
Mother Nature is giving farmers a run for their money this year, but, thankfully, there’s a growing crop to tend to in most areas.
Understand nitrogen loss, timing and placement to build the foundation for high yields