“We used to be basically a hog farm with grain crops,” Chad says. “Then in the late ’90s/early 2000s, we got out of hogs, and ...

Selecting corn genetics isn’t a decision to take lightly. Managing nitrogen with the same care helps protect yield potential ...

Seeding rates that are too high can waste input dollars and stress plants under dry or nutrient-limited conditions. Rates ...

The Illinois Corn Growers Association has elected Macon County farmer Mark Bunselmeyer as its new president for the coming ...

Corn dominates U.S. farmland and fuels the ethanol industry. But the fertilizer it relies on drives emissions and fouls drinking water.

As a teenager in a small Iowa town in the 1980s, I would join dozens of kids around this time of summer on crews at a Cargill research plot where we helped scientists control pollination of corn ...

ST. PAUL -- With a wet spring and delayed planting, many farmers are thinking of switching from corn to soybean because of potential yield losses in corn as planting is delayed. Farmers should ...

The latest report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts corn production will be up nearly 13 percent from a year ...

Last week was the Fourth of July. And as the saying goes, Indiana's corn crop should be "knee high." But the old ag adage is a thing of the past — as outdated as the notion that Hoosier farming is all ...

Feed Our Own Backyard harvest. Sept., 2025. Courtesy Great Plains Food BankFARGO (KVRR) — Three organizations are teaming up ...

GEORGE, IOWA — Wind storms in Iowa and South Dakota on July 28 damage to communities and farms. “I was grinding feed that evening, and just before dark got done with chores and went in the house and ...