Learn how to test soil early, prepare well and plant cotton into the right conditions for uniform stands and lasting yield potential.

No matter the type of farm, there’s an advantage to planting soil-feeding cover crops ahead of fall and winter. The assistance provided depends on the crops you plant. But there is definitely one out ...

Planting dry beans into spring cover crops could be a measure to protect young plants from damaging weather conditions like wind or hail. Dry beans are susceptible to damage from wind and other ...

During a Strategic Farming webinar hosted by the University of Minnesota Extension on March 25, Jeff Coulter, University of Minnesota Extension corn agronomist, offered numerous considerations for the ...

A new study from the University of Alberta points to an exciting way farmers can grow better crops while spending less on fertilizer. The secret? Planting certain grains and legumes side by side in ...

With last week’s warm and mostly dry weather farmers sped ahead on planting across the Corn Belt. USDA’s crop progress report showed Minnesota led the pace with 75% of the corn now planted, 14% ahead ...

Andrea Eveland, Ph.D., principal investigator and member at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, will lead a ...

2024 OCT 07 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- Research findings on Insurance are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting out of Urbana, Illinois ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. As a result, many farmers worldwide are seeing crop yields become smaller and less ...

A new method predicts leaf optical properties from traits, improving canopy light modeling and photosynthesis estimates in ...