Nerves are at a high as farmers near the close of the optimal planting window—May 20, on average. With more rain in the forecast you might be wondering just how long it will take to catch up, or if you can.
While it already seems like an arduous planting season, little seed has actually hit the ground. However, good weather has finally hit the Midwest and planters are rolling. Farmers took to Twitter to share how planting is going so far.
As corn pokes through the soil it’s susceptible to a wide variety of attacks. From insects to disease, attacking organisms see young corn as easy prey—and an attack could be detrimental to yield.
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With planting season underway in many parts of the U.S., farmers are working long, hard hours. You’re likely enjoying meals in the field, but what’s your favorite snack to power your day?
For those in areas where harvest ran long, and field work ran short or didn’t happen, or for those who might have other planting delays you might have questions that need answered before planting.
While the photos of contorted grain bins are staggering, they’re a heartbreaking reality to the owners who might not receive compensation for recent harvests.
When you look at a bag of corn seed, somewhere you’ll find information about corn refuge requirements. In states or varieties without the in-bag refuge option follow refuge requirements.
While planting might seem like a distant dream, it is top of mind for many farmers. As planting draws near, farmers need to have a well-established plan in motion for spring marketing.
A Kansas City, Kan. judge approved Syngenta’s $1.51 billion settlement regarding MIR 162, Agrisure Viptera, corn. It was approved in November 2018, so now you might be wondering: Where’s the money?
Syngenta discovered a genome-editing technique called haploid induction editing (HI-Edit) technology, which ultimately reduces the time it takes to develop commercial crop varieties.
In 2019 experts expect net farm income to reach $69.4 billion, 2018 hit $64.2 billion and the 91-year average (adjusted to 2019 dollars) is $84.2 billion.
In 2019 experts expect net farm income to reach $69.4 billion, 2018 hit $64.2 billion and the 91-year average (adjusted to 2019 dollars) is $84.2 billion.
A “catastrophic” grain bin failure in La Grange, Mo., on Monday morning lead to road closures as thousands of bushels of grain spilled from the structure.
Nufarm recently acquired Trunemco from BASF. The soybean, corn and cotton seed treatment provides defense against a variety of nematodes and can be added to current treatment programs.
Lurking beneath the soil, hungry nematodes eagerly await planting season and their lunch. Soybean cyst nematodes (SCN) are a particularly hungry pest, leading to an estimated $1 billion in yield loss each year.
The company sold Trunemco nematode management seed treatment to Nufarm. It also sold the Clearfield canola production system in the U.S. and Canada to Corteva Agriscience, the agriculture division of DowDuPont.
Farmer responses to challenges lended to, or detracted from, last season’s ultimate success. Learn from those decisions that didn’t work quite as well as hoped.
While soybean seed quality is struggling, corn is a beacon of hope for farmers across the U.S. Stellar yields and impeccable purity and quality mean that farmers can expect some of the best products seen recently.
“The largest market for biopesticides is conventional crops,” says Keith Jones, executive director of the Biological Products Industry Alliance (BPIA).
Technology has vastly increased the choices when it comes to molecular breeding for crop traits. But how do you narrow-down the options to the best choices?
Enlist E3 soybeans, jointly developed by Dow Agrosciences and MS Technologies, is finally approved for import by China. Reuters reports the country approved five new genetically modified crops for import.
Here are the most viewed seed related stories from the past year, which unsurprisingly are dominated by the seed shuffle caused by the mergers of the major agribusinesses.
Farmers from 24 states competed for NSP's top honors in its annual yield contest. Winners are selected from five categories and the overall winner Michael Ball hails from Idaho at 219.1 bu. per acre.
Earlier this week Pivot Bio and Monsanto Company, a member of the Bayer group, announced a collaboration they entered earlier this year to develop a new soybean inoculant.
The Wild West has come to ag retail. The scramble for ag retail dollars has kicked up a dusty haze as traditional chemical players scrap gravel with an expanding list of online start-up companies.
The Wild West has come to ag retail. The scramble for ag retail dollars has kicked up a dusty haze as traditional chemical players scrap gravel with an expanding list of online start-up companies.
In the past two years this farmer has been buying more crop inputs online—crop chemicals and fertilizer—and committing to himself to buy all seed for 2019 online.