David Cogen partnered with John Deere during the 2024 growing season to till, plant, spray and harvest a small field at Deere's Boundurant, Iowa, test farm. In the process, he says he learned a lot ...

Farmers are back in the field, but their crops may look a little different this season. A new USDA report shows they’re ...

Many farmers are waiting to plant in the northern Corn Belt. Heather Morris covers the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin for ...

I” state farmers intend to plant more corn and fewer soybeans this spring compared to last year, according to a prospective ...

Aaron Porter farms in southeast Missouri and he says recent rains and flooding have delayed planting. “Typically, we’d like ...

More corn is expected to go into the ground in 2025, and to get the highest yields requires some careful execution, according to Extension corn agronomist Jeff Coulter.

Widespread planting of corn hybrids designed to combat corn rootworm, the crop’s most damaging pest in the Corn Belt, is reducing both the technology’s effectiveness and some farmers’ profits, ...

The physical structure of corn plants — including the angle of leaves bending from the stem and the number of pollen-laden tassel branches — makes a big difference for yield.

The findings come from a new analysis of 12 years of field ... where it is rare for farmers to continuously plant the same fields with corn, the study found. "When we crunched the numbers, we ...