As you wrap up harvest this year, the work isn’t quite over. With the end of one season, you beckon in a new one with the way you treat the soil and prepare it for spring planting just a few short ...

If a Martian farmer parked his spaceship in the middle of the Corn Belt this spring, he’d likely think every farmer had gone to no-till from all the untouched crop residue. Of course, what really ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- Producers looking for ways to reduce feed costs might consider grazing corn stalks, says Julie Walker, South Dakota State University Extension Service beef specialist and associate ...

oday’s corn plants are tough. In most cases, that’s a good thing, but strength comes with some drawbacks. Breeding has imparted stalk strength among other traits. Stronger stalks mean better ...

Heavy rainfall has kept Indiana and Ohio corn growers from tilling fields and planting crops. Even with the delays, a Purdue Extension agronomist urge farmers not to get too hasty with tillage ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Farmers frustrated with the rainy spring shouldn't let the weather cloud their thinking about corn planting decisions. Although prime planting days are being washed away with ...

A dry spring and a wet June have Sussex County farmers looking at an early corn crop in 2015, with corn across the county easily surpassing the old farmer's adage of "knee high by the fourth of July." ...