As grain prices hit new levels, farmers are considering potential profit in preparing for the 2021 growing season. However, protection is alwa…
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Introducing legumes into grass pastures can provide many benefits, including a boost in forage yields.
Along with mechanical maintenance, the technology that runs our machines needs occasional updates
Waterhemp and Palmer amaranth continue to pester Iowa fields.
Prices are high, and the USDA expects farmers to try to take advantage in 2021.
URBANA, Ill. — From flooded spring fields to summer hailstorms and drought, farmers are well aware the weather is changing. It often means spr…
TAPS program has farmers compete on efficiency, profitability on a test-plot scale
The crop may not be in the ground for U.S. farmers, but it’s still a weather market.
The key to high-yielding wheat is standability. And timely fertilizer application. And use of fungicides. And planting population.
At Montana State University’s Central Ag Research Center, Dagmar is yielding as well as Vida, which is the number one spring wheat variety gro…
SIDNEY, Mont. – With more states’ producers choosing to grow hemp as an alternative crop in the rotation, whether for grain (oil), fiber, cert…
As farmers dealt with drought and wind in 2020, many were left looking to find any way to scrape up a bushel come harvest time. For those grow…
When it comes to agricultural misinformation, data will be the way to fix the record, according to Rebecca Larson, Western Sugar Cooperative c…
What’s the silver bullet? What’s the one thing that’s going to help you get higher wheat yields?
As the climate trends warmer and drier, global food security increasingly hinges on the ability of crops to withstand drought. But scientists …
Big price swings have started to become the norm in grain markets.
Cash canola prices have increased about $1.50 per hundredweight (cwt) since December, according to Barry Coleman, executive director of the No…
Cover crops offer tremendous value to society and landowners in terms of clean water and soil retention.
By late fall, much of the Midwest is a pleasing landscape of dry, harvested corn fields. It makes for a bucolic rural scene on highway drives.…
COLUMBIA, Mo. — If it’s a weed, spray it. That’s the mindset that most in the agriculture industry held for years.
Weather’s impact on agriculture is constant. From too much precipitation to not enough heat, a season largely hinges on what happens meteorolo…
Drought in 2020 didn’t only affect crop production, but soybean cyst nematode populations as well.
About 20 percent of Minnesota’s harvested soybean acres are found in the northwest corner of the state.
The rise of commodity prices in the last quarter of 2020 was a nice surprise for farmers who had doubted for months it would be a profitable y…
It was an eventful and unusual year for farmers and rural communities in Missouri, with the coronavirus pandemic altering several aspects of d…