The world’s top beef exporter Brazil is in advanced talks to begin shipments to Japan, according to a major industry group, in a move that may hurt U.S. sales to the Asian nation.   Brazil has ...

Last week my daughter passed a milestone in life when she bought her first car. Long time readers will recall I started her ...

The FFA tribute this week goes to Sarah Ault, Tennessee State FFA Vice President. Ault is from western Tennessee, and she ...

It is no longer a question of whether to plant soybeans early, but what crop management practices will help the crop achieve maximum yield potential. Farmers continue to push up the planting window ...

Cover crop use is on the rise across the U.S. However, the U.S. Census of Agriculture confirms that as of 2019, cover crops are still only grown on 6% of U.S. cropland. Jack Cornell, director of ...

Growers found success with Armor® Seed cotton and soybean varieties in 2024. Learn how product placement and solid genetics ...

*This is the final article in our 2023 Southwest Economic Outlook series. Hear from Oklahoma State University and OSU Extension Service, and Texas A&M University and TAMU AgriLife Extension Service ...

USDA’s March 31-Prospective Plantings report showed U.S. farmers intend to increase corn acres from 88.6 million in 2022 to 92.0 million in 2023. Of the 3.4-million-acre national increase, 865,000 ...

When Nebraska Extension engineer Paul Jasa talks about planters, no-till and cover crops, people listen. Jasa has a wealth of knowledge, attained through research over the past four decades, that he ...

Drive down the roads in many parts of the Midwest and the crops look good. Maybe even phenomenal, says Eric Wilson, agronomist at Wyffels Hybrids. “If you go pull ears and you look at the potential, ...

As we head into Labor Day weekend, work on the farm this week has been a mixed bag. For the most part, rain fizzled out on Tuesday leaving us with only 0.15 to 0.4 inches compared to meaningful rains ...

Specialty crops offer unique opportunities to include cover crops in the rotation because they are often harvested earlier. This opens a wider window for a late-summer or earlier-fall seeding in which ...