WAHPETON, N.D. – Cercospora leaf spot (CLS) ravaged sugarbeet fields in North Dakota and Minnesota in 2025, taking up to a third of the crop yield in some grower’s fields – and in spite of repeated recommended fungicide applications.
- Sue Roesler
Upside Robotics, an ag tech company based in Ontario, Canada, deploys 24-inch robots that work in a group called “swarms” to fertilize cornfields with precision, according to Jana Tian, chief executive officer and co-founder of Upside Robotics.
- Sue Roesler
Disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz could have a “tremendous impact” on fertilizer prices globally and domestically, according to Bryon Parman, NDSU ag finance specialist and associate professor.
- Sue Roesler
On an original farm homestead in the southwestern region of the state, two couples, Meagan and Justin Schlecht, and Amanda and Dustin Kuhn, opened Sasquatch Acres last year in Dickinson, N.D., a first-of-its-kind niche farmstand, greenhouse, and community gathering place.
- Sue Roesler
FARGO, N.D. – Spring is nearly here, and garden and yard enthusiasts across the region are breaking out supplies and tools to get their gardens started.
- Sue Roesler
The EPA recently re-approved dicamba for over-the-top herbicide use after planting dicamba-tolerant soybeans. The new label will be a test for two growing seasons, 2026-27, according to Madeleine Smith, NDSU Extension pesticide specialist.
- Janelle Atyeo
“It would be very challenging if this were year one.”
- Julie Belschner
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – It was 95 degrees outside Feb. 25 in the River Walk area of San Antonio. It was almost as hot with information overload inside the Henry B. González Convention Center where the 30th-annual Commodity Classic was being held. According to the organizers, it was record atten…
- Kristen Sindelar
One company is eliminating guesswork around fungicide application through its biosensing capability that is rooted in the plant’s physiology.
- Sue Roesler
A wet year in 2025 led to increased white mold pressure in crops throughout the region, especially in soybeans and dry beans, and BASF is launching Zorina fungicide as a protective fungicide to control white mold.
- Sue Roesler
Both the U.S. and Canada reported an “excellent” sunflower crop in 2025, rebounding from the previous year’s crop, according to John Sandbakken of the National Sunflower Association.
- Crystal Reed
With over 12 million tons of nitrogen fertilizer applied annually, according to the EPA, the biggest challenge is how much never makes it into the crop and is lost to volatilization, leaching and runoff.
- Sue Roesler
Windlift tethered drones could be the next generation of ag drones, able to fly over crop fields and rangeland, monitoring crops, weeds and cows, with the ability to stay in the air for a long time.
- Sue Roesler
Maximizing the efficacy of glufosinate becomes important for managing resistant weed populations, as well as always using best management practices to keep what herbicides producers have left to use for post-emergent use in soybeans.
- Sue Roesler
HETTINGER, N.D. – Are farmers in the western and south central North Dakota receiving a return on their investment when one bag of hybrid corn seed could cost between $270 and $350?
- Sue Roesler
Using tillage tools in less aggressive ways for water management will still help with managing residue, but it will also keep more of the soil structure in place, and that will allow more water to infiltrate into the soil and produce better crops, according to Jodi DeJong-Hughes, University …
- Sue Roesler
A globally oversupplied pulse market and high yields locally have caused depressed prices, which have affected pulse growers in the Northern Plains and other states, and it will likely take a year or more to recover, according to Kurt Haarmann, president and CEO of Columbia Grain Internation…
- Sue Roesler
Waterhemp continues to spread north and west, with increasing resistance to herbicide Group 2, 9, and 14, according to Joe Ikley, NDSU Extension weed specialist.
- Sue Roesler
It will cost more to fertilize the soil next year and cost slightly more to plant major crops, according to Bryon Parman, North Dakota State University ag finance specialist.
- Sue Roesler
Some producers in North Dakota are still slogging through wet fields to try and finish corn and sunflower harvest before the snow flies, and others have moved on to field work, applying fertilizer and tilling, where necessary.
A microscopic enemy could be stealing profits from soybean fields across the upper Midwest and many producers may not even know it's there.
- Sue Roesler
MINOT, N.D. – The NDSU Master Gardener Program located in Ward County at North Central Research Extension Center (NCREC) operates a “Hunger Free Garden,” growing produce for local food pantries, according to Emily How, NDSU Extension agent in Ward County.
With operating costs climbing and margins narrowing, corn growers are looking for every edge to protect yield and profitability. Diseases like tar spot and southern rust can slash yields by 40 to 80 bushels per acre, making early-season protection more than just a crop insurance policy; it’s…
- Sue Roesler
WEST FARGO, N.D. – In Bayer soybean seed fields this summer in North Dakota, beans with a range of maturities thrived in the late, warm weather with moisture, and the quality improved from last year, according to Dan Sundberg, site lead at Bayer’s West Fargo soybean production facility.
- Katelyn Winberg
As combines power down across the Midwest, farmers are left with more than grain in the bin. They also have a season’s worth of numbers sitting on their monitors, and that data can be the key to making next year’s decisions a little clearer.