Crop Conditions
Promising new technologies are entering the market, but large-scale corn and soybean farmers often face a frustrating bottleneck.
Ken Ferrie lays out a strategy for farmers struggling with ponded corn acres after rains soak parts of the Midwest.
NOAA officially declared El Niño on Thursday and says the climate pattern has a 63% chance of reaching “very strong” status by fall, potentially shaping U.S. weather through harvest and winter.
Uniform emergence laid the foundation, but corn is now determining key yield components. Missy Bauer explains why stress management and nitrogen status matter at this stage.
After a historic 10-month stretch of dryness, improving moisture conditions are helping crops and pastures, but long-term drought impacts continue to linger across parts of the High Plains and West.
From canola to hemp, recent history shows new crops only stick when margin and infrastructure line up for years—not seasons.
Nitrogen availability, root development and residue load determine whether crops stumble or race through June.
Meteorologist Eric Snodgrass says warmer Pacific waters - not just El Niño - could drive a wetter, stormier summer across much of the Midwest and central U.S.