CARMI, Ill. — It’s an increasingly common comment in Illinois this year regarding the corn crop: “Yields are probably the best we’ve ever had,…
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Montana State University’s new spring wheat breeder, Jason Cook, begins his new role at the university already knowing a lot about Montana far…
TIOGA, N.D. – Ryan Davidson, who farms with his wife, Jenice, and kids, Gavin and Gracelyn, had hoped sunflower harvest could be finished by t…
Late summer and early fall is time to ensure infested and spoiled grain in bins from previous harvests won’t cause more problems for this year’s harvest.
With the 2021 northern U.S. durum harvest behind them, producers saw prices move slightly higher in the early days of October.
Since the end of September and into the first couple weeks of October, spring wheat nearby futures prices for Minneapolis have slowly and stea…
While 2021 hasn’t been the best year for farmers, there are ways to “come back from a fall” and be better prepared for the future, according t…
Just over half of the nation's largest farms said they planted cover crops in 2017, showing increased acceptance of the practice's benefits for soil health and water retention, according to a newly released Agriculture Department survey of 400 producers with production worth at least $500,000 a year (putting them in the top 7.4 percent of farms). Here are some takeaways from the poll:
- In 2017, farmers reported planting 15.4 million acres of cover crops, a 50% increase from 2012.
- 81% of growers with cover crops said the practice improved soil health and crop yields. One in seven said it improved soil health but not crop yields.
- 48% of farmers polled said they abandoned cover crops in the past or have never planted them before.
- Field-level surveys of crop fields found that expanded adoption of cover crops is highest on fields that include corn silage in the rotation and lowest on fields that include wheat.
- In 2018, about one-third of the acreage planted with a cover crop received a financial assistance payment from either federal, state, or other programs that support cover-crop planting.
- Most of the farmers who planted cover crops were fairly new to the practice. Half the farms with cover crops reported doing so for five years or less, and on 25% or less of their land. Only one-fourth of the growers who plant cover crops had done so for more than 10 years.
As far as market performance for 2021, through Sept. 1, energy has been leading the way, say Rob Fronning, vice president for insurance and co…
The wheat market is still seeing some volatility as the market tries to settle in and get a balance between supply and demand following the co…
In general across the Midwest, conditions are good for planting wheat and cover crops this fall.
IFT Publications asked those in the non-farm community if they have questions about modern agriculture and got several that pertain to crop pr…
TIOGA, N.D. – Harvest is moving along well at the Davidson farm in the northwestern region, according to Ryan Davidson, who farms with his wif…
LEDGER, Mont. – The Montana seasons seem to be the most defined within the state’s Golden Triangle. Early spring shows shades of brown with ju…
Following the completion of harvest, the spring wheat market has taken a little bit of a setback in September.
TIOGA, N.D. – While it is a couple of months late, rain has been falling intermittently at the Davidson farm in the northwestern region of the state.
After a June and July plagued with record-high temperatures, Montana producers gave a sigh of relief as temperatures began to cool around the …
As harvest winds down, unlike durum, which has seen prices skyrocketing up, spring wheat prices have continued to move in a sideways trading p…
SIDNEY, Mont. –Montana State University’s Eastern Ag Research Center in Sidney has been a good nursery to test winter wheat varieties - for th…
A new hard red spring wheat variety with moderate resistance to Fusarium head blight (FHB) has been released by the Montana Ag Experiment Station.
Wheat harvest is well underway, and with hot and excessively dry conditions being experienced across the state, harvest has been progressing f…
TIOGA, N.D. – Entering the Jenice and Ryan Davidson farm, the long driveway to the shop is lined with rows of blooming sunflowers on both side…
LEDGER, Mont. – It is that time of year where Montana’s Golden Triangle is abuzz with the sounds of combines are rolling through wheat as grai…
Harvest in North Dakota is surging ahead as spring crops finish maturing and fall crops wait for timely rains.