Wheat
To bale or not to bale? That’s a question farmers face every year about wheat straw, which can be seen stacked in large quantities throughout Washington’s wheat country as harvest season ends.
Europe has some similarities and differences when it comes to row crop farming compared to the U.S.
Four Nebraska farmers are demanding compensation from the state because it diverted irrigation water away from their crops to comply with the Republican River Compact.
Both the hard red winter wheat crop and shipping on the Mississippi River have become the most recent focus of the drought.
Take a virtual crop tour across farm country, without leaving your chair.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice, soybeans, pasture and sorghum for the week ending May 13.
Read details about the major crops intended to be planted this year.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice and sorghum for the week ending Nov. 13.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice, sorghum and pasture for the week ending Oct. 30.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice and sorghum for the week ending Nov. 6.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice, sorghum and pasture for the week ending Oct. 23.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice, sorghum and pasture for the week ending Oct. 10.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice, sorghum and pasture for the week ending Oct. 16.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice, sorghum and pasture for the week ending Oct. 2.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice, sorghum and pasture for the week ending Sept. 26.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice, sorghum and pasture for the week ending Sept. 18.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice, sorghum and pasture for the week ending Sept. 11.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice, sorghum and pasture for the week ending Sept. 5.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice, sorghum and pasture for the week ending Aug. 14.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice, sorghum and pasture for the week ending Aug. 21.
Untimely heat expanded across the Midwest and Northeast, halting pasture growth and stressing reproductive corn and soybeans.
July brought with it warmer than normal temperatures and limited rainfall to much of the U.S.
The 2011 corn planted area for all purposes is estimated at 92.3 million acres, unchanged from the June estimate but up 5 percent from 2010.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice, sorghum and pasture for the week ending Aug. 7.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice, sorghum and pasture for the week ending July 31.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice, sorghum and pasture for the week ending July 24.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice, sorghum and pasture for the week ending July 17.
Research shows booming agricultural land values are not in a bubble.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice, sorghum and pasture for the week ending July 3.
USDA progress ratings for corn, cotton, wheat, rice, sorghum and pasture for the week ending July 10.