The unpredictability of the weather from one year to the next might be the only thing you can predict in crop production. At times, you pray for rain, and at others, you hope it will stop. Excessive ...

Dealing with mycotoxins in corn during harvest can be double trouble for farmers. Not only do they reduce yields and grain quality, but if contaminated grain is fed to livestock, it can lead to ...

OREGON, Mo. – Farmers in northwest Missouri are plowing through the harvest season with many corn fields in Holt County already shucked. While many parts of the state have been dealing with ...

A full day in the fields bringing in the corn from sunrise to sunset. Long hours, steady machines, and endless rows of gold ...

It is often believed that additional corn yield hits can be attributed to “phantom yield loss” — losses in kernel dry matter ...

Corn leafhoppers are small insects that can damage corn crops. The bugs appeared farther north this year in Missouri and Oklahoma. A small insect carrying pathogens that can lead to corn stunt was ...

Michigan’s row crops are currently estimated to mature somewhat early compared to historic norms. Some Michigan farms also give us what they are seeing on their current crop maturity. Michigan’s most ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A truck driver with the Tuxedo Corn Company prepares a load of Olathe Sweet brand sweet corn to be transported from a field to the company’s distribution ...

Lee Tesdell stands in a prairie strip on his farm near Slater, Iowa. He grows alfalfa and Kernza, a perennial grain, raises sheep and cash rents to a neighbor who grows corn and soybeans. Over the ...