There are more than 14 million acres of corn fields in Missouri and Illinois ... Corn plants need one-and-one-quarter inches of rainfall in July and August to maintain rapid growth and produce ...

Weather in the Corn Belt also leans bullish for prices ... and bears are on a level overall near-term technical playing field. Recent gains suggest a market bottom is in place and prices are ...

"You want to make sure that you have a heavy high test weight corn so that you have optimum feed quality," he added. MacEachern said researchers tried different fertilizers on fields across the ...

Farmers in southern Kentucky are facing a tough start to the 2025 planting season as excessive rainfall continues to delay ...

USDA’s Joint Ag Weather Facility says in the Corn Belt, showers are limited to the southern tier of the region, including southern sections of Illinois and Missouri. “Elsewhere, dry weather ...

Not only do growers have to consider rainfall, they also have temperatures to factor into the corn’s growth pattern ... “I plant a field and then I wait until it comes up out of the ground ...