The FFA tribute this week goes to Tucker Rohrig, the Iowa State FFA South Central Vice President. Pearson talks with Rohrig ...

The CDC shares concerns that the bird flu may have changed and could be becoming more infectious. Two house cats died after ...

Rain is a good thing – though farmers are constantly facing the challenging reality of too much or not enough of one of their occupation’s most critical resources. In Louisiana, where corn planting ...

Preparations for next year’s growing season start as soon as you make that pass through the field with the combine. Managing your corn residue properly will ensure you give next year’s crop a good ...

In 2023, the U.S. planted 94.6 million acres of corn and 83.6 million acres of soybean. Looking ahead at the corn to soybean ratio, those acres will likely shift in 2024. There is much to consider, ...

As the numbers ticked by on the yield monitor, Mark Wieberg couldn’t believe it, so he stopped the combine, hopped out and checked calibrations. Sure enough, everything was working correctly, allowing ...

The January WASDE and quarterly stocks report is notorious for starting off the new year with a shot of volatility and this year was no different. While the quarterly stocks report came in pretty ...

The late Jim Newman, an early pioneer in agricultural climatology, introduced me to the El Niño cycle in 1983. I sat in his tiny office in the Purdue Poultry Building for many discussions early in my ...

The 2024 growing season will go down as one that produced good corn yields in many locations. Despite its fits and starts, if you avoided extremely late spring planting delays and summer flooding, ...

Farmers looking to better market their corn, cotton, soybeans, and wheat in 2024 need to remember that commodity prices tend to be higher at planting time and lower at harvest. It’s a matter of supply ...

With barely a month left in the year, 2023 crop chores are winding down – just in time for 2024 operations to start taking shape. Planting rotations, fall fertilization and juggling pre-paid expenses ...

Feed/residual is projected to be up just 18 mbu versus 23-24 to 5.825 bbu. USDA is presumably assuming that a 45-50 cent decline (10%) in corn prices will stimulate feed demand – even in the face of a ...