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The new 45Z tax credit passed in the Inflation Reduction Act, slated to take effect Jan. 1, 2025, means a farmer’s carbon intensity score will soon be worth more, especially if your corn goes to an ethanol plant.

A Minnesota grower asks Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field Agronomist, how to improve upon the soil fertility on 90 acres he is renting for the first time this year.

Here’s how the pros approach soil sample seasons.

Take a reasoned, purposeful, and proactive approach to adding new technology.

This acquisition provides wider market access for Adapt-N, the premier in-season nitrogen recommendation tool.

Whether it’s planting, spraying, soil sampling or harvesting, new tools are turning the information you collect into actionable insights.

Yield Optimizer is a digital tool that uses independent seed trial data to help farmers make seed selections with guaranteed yield performance. CEO Billy Rose tells how it gives farmers peace of mind.

Just because tar spot was mostly a no-show in 2022 and 2023 doesn’t mean that will be the case in 2024. Charting humidity levels can help predict if the disease will strike.

It’s been said high-yielding corn needs 25" of moisture per acre per year. In 2023, when Mother Nature didn’t cooperate, management strategies to retain moisture coupled with new traits made a difference at harvest.

Being prepared will further instill you as a trusted advisor and someone ready to outfit a customer’s farm for the future with its complete digital dataset.