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.…
WHAT: Public hearing on proposed commercial industrial hemp regulationWHEN: 10 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 20WHERE: Virtual: via video conferencing …
Greetings fellow ranchers and farmers from Central Dickinson County, Abilene, Kansas! Happy New Year’s! I hope that you and your family had a …
At the UNL Food Processing Center/Department of Food Science and Technology researchers are cooking up a batch of the very first bean-based, d…
A Pennsylvania farmer hit a new dryland yield record in the National Sorghum Producers yield contest.
In 2018, an epidemic of corn tar spot plagued corn growers from Florida to Michigan. This plant disease, caused by the fungus Phyllachora mayd…
In 2018, a thunderstorm leveled the grain storage system of Stockholm Grains. “It was devastating,” said Stockholm Grains manager Gabe Cox. He…
Drought stress has been a major roadblock in crop success, and this obstacle will not disappear anytime soon. Luckily, a dynamic duo like Batm…
Kansas wheat farmers demonstrated their agronomic prowess in the 2020 National Wheat Yield Contest. State winners from this year’s contest wer…
With a need for extra help at grain elevators especially during fall harvest and wheat harvest, the Central Valley Ag cooperative in Nebraska …
After early moisture which morphed into a surprisingly dry August, Nebraska soybean farmers still reported largely above-average yields at har…
The National Wheat Foundation compiled yield contest entries from 77 growers 25 states this year with the national winner coming from Washingt…
MABEL, Minn. – Time moved quickly ahead of the fourth annual Nelson Family Dream Works 2020 sale.
Herbicide options in dry beans are limited compared to other common row crops in Nebraska, such as corn or soybean. With the increasing preval…
In a stark contrast to 2019, this year’s growing season was drastically drier which meant that participants in the Testing Ag Performance Solu…
Hope, Kansas
North Platte, Nebraska
Corn rootworm infestations appear to be spreading rapidly and covering more territory than before. “I don’t want to say it’s showing up in poc…
MANHATTAN, Kan. — A public hearing will be conducted at 10 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, to consider the adoption of proposed regulations to g…
LUVERNE, N.D. – Jordan Svenningsen, 28, operates a “mid-sized” farming/ranching operation in northern Barnes County, featuring both grain farm…
MABEL, Minn. – Three generations make their home at Nelson Family Farms (NFF) of Fillmore County. Located just a few miles from the Iowa and W…
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Satellites, yield monitors and numerous other technologies have given farmers massive amounts of information about how crops…
North Platte, Nebraska
Like most of the Midwest, Kansas was hit with an exceptionally lengthy dry period this summer. Thankfully, much of the central area of the sta…
A sixth generation Kansas sorghum grower who is already raising a young seventh generation was recently elected vice chairman of the National …
Hope, Kansas
Farmers this fall were watching weather forecasts as closely as their crops, hoping for rain to propel winter wheat emergence.