Farmers in Indiana are hard at it with 18% of corn and 13% of the state’s soybeans harvested as of Sept. 24. They’re eight percentage points ahead of the 5-year average on corn harvest.
Severe weather and flooding from tropical storm Florence made it impossible to get in fields. Some of the more severe areas received between 6” and 10” of rain.
Farmers from Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska came together to discuss what’s holding up harvest and potentially stunting yield in their areas. The verdict: excess rainfall, disease and variability.
Wild weather across the Corn Belt could slow down as temperatures dive. According to meteorologists, frost could hit parts of the Corn Belt Oct. 1 or sooner.
While farmers in the U.S. boast their near-completion of 2018 wheat harvest, farmers in Canada look in envy. Earlier this week, Mother Nature dumped 6” of snow in northwest Alberta.
Tuesday, USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced counties in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma will be available for FSA emergency loans due to losses from drought
Harvest timing is critical—especially when it comes to cutting silage. A new tool by Rock River Laboratory, Inc., is said to help farmers determine the best time to cut silage.
Farmers in Texas and other areas experiencing drought are in dire need of hay supplies and dryland crops are burning up. Because of this, grain farmers are abandoning their grain crops and baling them for cattle feed.
The latest news that Bayer AG wants to buy Monsanto has the agriculture industry wondering yet again how the growing consolidation in the seed and crop chemical industry could affect farmers large and small.
