Seed Technology

Unverferth 60-Series Seed Runner is designed to deliver more operational efficiency for growers pressed for time and labor.

Bigger roots, higher populations, and easier in-season access mean fertility programs should look different for these new hybrids.

Preemptive control of heavy-hitting diseases like white mold, frogeye leaf spot, Cercospora leaf blight and others is now possible thanks to specially designed soybeans that act like an early warning system, enabling proactive fungicide treatments and yield protection.

The fungal disease has spread to fields in at least seven states since 2018, including three new ones just this year. Once established, the pathogen is nearly impossible to eradicate, Extension plant pathologists report.

Ken Ferrie addresses how farmers can determine what tillage depth to establish, where to run the tool, and when to use the cutters and shanks. But before he can offer those specific details, farmers need to be able to answer one important question.

Number of bushels per acre is high on their list of priorities, but it’s not necessarily their No. 1 concern going into 2026.

Both products have been registered for use by the EPA, with one of them featuring a novel active ingredient.

With contributing factors ranging from insect pressure to disease and environmental stressors this season, agronomists say farmers face hard decisions on when to combine their crop in affected fields.

Farm equipment news and product introductions for early-fall 2025.

We can make Mexican agriculture both innovative and aspirational—and turn farming into a career that attracts our best and brightest.