Producers who are able to take a break and visit their local NDSU Research Extension Center (REC) in mid-summer can attest to the energy felt at annual field days.
- Sue Roesler
June is turning out to be a month of thunderstorms and both rainy and somewhat dry conditions depending on locations across the state, but most areas are reporting that newly emerged and growing crops are coming along and developing well.
- Janelle Atyeo
Drought conditions in the Upper Midwest worsened as farmers planted their fields this spring, causing some to shift acres away from water-hungry corn.
- Janelle Atyeo
This time of year, farmers are deciding whether their crops would benefit from a nutrient boost, weighing yield potential against the high cost of fertilizer. A tool that monitors plant health from space is helping make those decisions easier.
- Sue Roesler
Most producers across North Dakota received timely rains to spur their newly planted crops to start the month of June. Many crops had emerged from the soil, especially small grains, canola, and corn ahead of three main rain events across the state.
- Sue Roesler
DICKINSON, N.D. – Recent changes to the Farmers for Soil Health program, a corn, soybean and pork commodity group program, are giving cover crops and cost sharing a second look.
- Janelle Atyeo
There’s a difference between weed control and weed suppression, according to south central Nebraska farmer Jordan Uldrich. Control is what can be achieved with herbicides. “You’re not stopping the weed,” Uldrich said. “They’re to clean up afterward. Interseeding is weed suppression.”
- Janelle Atyeo
Minnesota farmer advocates for changes to sugar imports as new crop is planted
- Sue Roesler
Waterhemp remains one of the costliest threats to farms in central and eastern North Dakota and Minnesota. The troublesome weed was found in 38 of North Dakota’s 53 counties last year and it continues to spread north and west in the state.
- Sue Roesler
A stretch of warmer days after cool temperatures had tractors rolling across the state, as many producers were finally putting in the 2026 crop. Most were planting into dry, cold soils, except for those in northeastern North Dakota, who had too wet of soils to plant into.
- Sue Roesler
A surprisingly powerful dust and windstorm seemed to come out of nowhere on May 14 across the state, bringing strong winds of 40-60 miles per hour with fierce gusts of over 65 miles per hour, tossing and swirling dirt and debris in the air and dumping it on fields and forages.
- Janelle Atyeo
SDSU's crop performance program helps farmers see how crop varieties stack up.
- Sue Roesler
With fertilizer prices rising, biologicals are becoming a huge area of interest to farmers, according to Leo Bortolon, NDSU research agronomist at North Central Regional Extension Center (NCREC) south of Minot, N.D. Bortolon has been testing biologicals in several crops at the center, includ…
- Sue Roesler
Wheat growers are able to have both high yields and top quality in the same sample of wheat, a fact which the National Wheat Yield Contest (NWYC) set out to prove when the contest added Top-Quality Awards to the yield awards a few years ago.
- Sue Roesler
Clair Keene, NDSU Extension agronomist in cereal crops and field corn, urges producers to take advantage of any nitrogen fertilizer credits they have in their system, especially with higher fertilizer costs this growing season.
Tractors were rolling – sporadically – in the south-central and western regions of the state in mid-April, planting mostly spring wheat and pulses for the 2026 season, but cold, wet soils are keeping farmers in other parts of the state waiting to get into the fields.
- Sue Roesler
VALLEY CITY, N.D. – Dry bean growers looking for contracts for the year may want to consider the new Columbia Grain Pulse Processing Plant in Valley City, which had its grand opening ceremony on April 1.
- Sue Roesler
On a snowy spring day, three producers from across the state joined research scientists from NDSU Research Extension Centers (RECs) and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) at the Cover Crop Summit on April 2 to share their perspective and experiences with cover crops.
- Sue Roesler
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.”