Drought
The historic 2012 drought is far from over, but it has at least subsided in parts of the country.
Among other benefits, the project multiplies the number of available genetic markers that plant breeders can use to improve drought tolerance.
Despite the worst single-year drought ever in the Southern Plains, wheat producers there are hoping for, or perhaps even banking on, more rain.
It’s no secret that wheat is struggling in Oklahoma and Texas.
Cotton production in The Golden State is on a decline for the fourth straight year, as farmers find it increasingly hard to justify growing it amid a multiyear drought.
The corn has grown to only half its normal height on Yan Shuqin’s ranch in the hills of Inner Mongolia this year, as a swath of northern China suffers its worst drought in 60 years.
Recent heavy rainfall has washed away or at least lessened drought conditions in swaths of Nebraska and Iowa, according to a report released Thursday.
Warm temperatures and adequate soil moisture boosted plant populations, according to the Doane Advisory Services Co. crop tour.
Corn rose for a third session as a government report showed U.S. inventories will remain at a 17-year low on increasing use of the grain in livestock feed.
Corn futures rose the most in seven weeks after USDA raised its forecast for animal-feed demand, leaving the inventory estimate at a 17-year low.
While landowners welcome the news, Purdue Extension agricultural economist Craig Dobbins said it should signal caution for potential buyers.
On Friday, Jan. 11, USDA will release its final estimates on corn and soybean production and acreage for the 2012-13 crop year.
Among the most-viewed AgWeb videos this year: segments on the prospect of $7 corn and Fourth of July-like market conditions.
But next year’s toxin levels are expected to remain low unless hot and dry summer weather returns, a crop expert says.
Researchers at Washington State University pulled data about weather along with soil and crop types to develop an online service.
Nearly 2,000 producers in areas affected by dry weather have used funding provided through the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
John Leslie is a distinguished professor who heads the plant pathology department at Kansas State University.
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Other crops are also maturing fast, but are consistently in very poor or poor condition.
USDA hacked estimate corn yields this week. Jerry Gulke explains what that means for prices this year and beyond.
2012 corn yields are a mixed bag, according to a recent Farm Journal Pulse.
Submit photos of your awful-looking corn and you could win an AgWeb hat.
Conditions in the nation’s third-largest corn-growing and fourth-largest soybean-producing state are rapidly deteriorating.
Take a virtual crop tour across the country and globe, without leaving your chair.
As you suffer from drought and begin to think about crop insurance, here are some things to keep in mind.
Crop conditions in the northern Corn Belt were holding on, but that may not longer true.
Corn futures have soared, crop condition ratings have dropped, and the world is hearing about risks of U.S. drought driving food prices higher.
Farm Journal’s field agronomist likens this year’s crop condition to that of 1988.
This year’s corn needs rain and needs it soon.