Michigan State study shows corn planting success depends on soil conditions and weather forecasts, not just calendar timing.

Ken Ferrie explains how to prioritize planter attachments, why digging cross-sections is essential for ground-truthing planter performance, and the hidden risks of excessive closing wheel downforce.

NAPERVILLE, Illinois, May 5 (Reuters) - U.S. farmers have hit very few snags with corn planting this spring, and the foreseeable future is barrier-free. Dry and mostly warm weather across the Corn ...

With already thin profit margins and increasingly uncertain farm labor and other input costs, precision agriculture ...

Flying over Ohio this time of year, green fields paint a lush picture. For one farmer, those fields were a blank canvas for something he was ready to create. “We’ve been doing the multi-hybrid ...

Changing weather and planting practices have led to increased yields. This is an Inside Science story. Few of climate change’s varied dangers are more dire than its potential to make the world’s farms ...

For the last month and a half, tractors have been pulling fertilizer carts, tillage equipment and planters on our roads and in the fields as planting season begins. Corn and soybeans are the primary ...

A recent study from the University of Illinois shows that gene-edited bacteria can supply the equivalent of 35 pounds of nitrogen from the air during early corn growth, which may reduce the crop’s ...