Penn State researchers discover flavonoids make corn earworm larvae sick. New herbicides and a bioinsecticide show promise.

Mike Pearson talks with Lexi Rush, who recently retired from her position as State Sentinel at the Tennessee FFA.

If Dennis Todey could lay out the weather forecast for 2024 with 100% accuracy, you wouldn’t be reading it here for free. No one can do that, at least not yet. What skilled climatologists can do is ...

Despite running cotton pickers in the mud, Doug Scott says 2020 turned out a decent harvest for his cotton crop outside of Sikeston, Mo. “First off, no one wants to hear you complain about it,” Scott ...

Selecting a disease-resistant soybean variety to plant in the right field is a critical first step to maximizing yield potential. There are many good-performing soybean varieties available for ...

In 1937, there was something big happening in the seed corn business. H. Chris Hoegemeyer and his son Leonard C., at Hooper, Neb., were among many farmers just beginning to toy with producing hybrid ...

Colby Tucker of Hopkins FFA, Madelyn Ruster of Coopersville FFA, Grace Torsch of Montague FFA and Sterling Tomac of Chesaning FFA were recently named Michigan’s 2025 Star awardees. The awards are ...

The formula for profit on corn or soybeans sounds simple: Yield times price minus cost. But plans made in winter and reality at harvest can result in something completely different. All three ...

Many farms grew sorghum or sorghum species for the first time this summer. Its harvest timing is very different than corn silage if you want to get it right. Sorghum can be a wetter, high-sugar, ...

Have you tried brown midrib male sterile forage sorghum as a replacement for corn silage? Data have found it to be cheaper, and it can produce nearly the same amount of milk but with even better ...

Want to know how your corn will grow this year? Watch the Pacific Ocean. That was Eric Snodgrass’ message for Midwestern farmers heading into the 2024 growing season. “It’s going to come down to the ...

Happy New Year to all! The new year is a time of reflection and a new beginning. It is a time for prayer and fasting, to seek the plans and purposes God has for this coming year. We all try to plan ...