Like the start of a big NASCAR race or the beginning of a Championship game, farmers in portions of the Upper Midwest began full-scale field work during the week of April 13-19. Farm operators in many ...

Recent storms have dropped anywhere from a half inch to 4” of rain across many Midwest farmers’ fields. Ken Ferrie uses a ...

Learn how growing degree day compression keeps full-season corn hybrids viable in delayed planting, preserving yield ...

U.S. farmers continue planting corn at a faster-than-normal pace, with soybean seeding also running ahead of average despite ...

Latest USDA report shows corn and soybean plantings ahead of schedule through April 26. Winter wheat quality unchanged at 30% ...

Like the start of a big NASCAR race or the beginning of a Championship game, many farmers in southern Minnesota and Iowa began full-scale field work during the week of April 13-19. Farm operators in ...

Timely rains and great conditions have farmers racing to put seeds in the ground. USDA’s latest crop progress report shows 24% of the corn crop is now planted. That’s 2% ahead of the five-year average ...

Year after year, the same 15 million acres across Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin are planted with corn. Each August, the fibrous green leaves in those fields reach eye level. And each ...

Kent Thiesse looks at the weather conditions and crop conditions so far this year and reflects on how those might translate to final yield tallies across the country. Crop development is a bit behind ...

As Midwest farmers prepare for another growing season, a familiar question is resurfacing across the Corn Belt: when is the ...