Extension specialists explain what the expansion means for corn growers, how to manage future disease risks.
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- Paul Jasa University of Nebraska-Lincoln
With fall harvest underway, recent rains have left fields soft, with harvest equipment cutting ruts into the soil in some areas. Those ruts leave the soil surface uneven and can indicate significant compaction below the surface. That compaction can restrict root growth for several growing se…
- Beatriz Bizzuti University of Minnesota-Extension
As summer comes to an end and temperatures cool, it is time to start preparing the stand for winter.
- Kristen Sindelar
How much nitrogen should I apply to my cornfields? With the price of fertilizer these days, that’s the million-dollar question.
- Sue Roesler
The “single biggest yield robber” for soybeans in the U.S. is soybean cyst nematode (SCN) – a silent yield killer because it doesn’t show clear symptoms above ground.
Wet weather is slowing corn harvest across much of the Corn Belt, creating challenges for growers while also giving Wyffels Hybrids’ agronomy and breeding teams an opportunity to evaluate corn performance under a wide range of conditions.
- Kristen Sindelar
“The ability to test machines in these conditions, bring the data back to Omaha and work with our group of engineering teams helps us to develop solutions with significant relevance to North American farmers.”
With recent rains adding moisture across parts of the Corn Belt, growers may be trying to determine how early to get those combines rolling.
New pre-emergent chemistry offers hope for growers battling the most aggressive resistant weeds in North America.
- Janelle Atyeo
Brian Brhel's cover crop business is about more than providing seed to fellow farmers.
- By Kelsey Stremel, K-State College of Agriculture
K-State’s TAPS program helps producers test new approaches to water and farm management
- Kristen Sindelar
A Wayne County, Nebraska farmer shares his approach to soil health.
- By Marie Flanagan, NCR-SARE
In the Big Blue and Little Blue River watersheds of Kansas and Nebraska, producers face challenges when managing soil erosion and nutrient runoff from corn-soy rotations.
- By Lauren Stanick, UNL Agronomy and Horticulture
As many seed industry professionals near retirement, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is training new recruits through its Seed Industry Scholars program.
- Daniel Munch and Cydney Stables American Farm Bureau Federation
Key Takeaways
- Amy Hadachek
The latest fall forecast brings good news for some areas of the drought-stricken Midwest.
- Sotirios Archontoulis, Mike Castellano and Raheel Osman Iowa State University
Rainfall from spring and into midsummer wasn't unusual in total amount, but it was unusual in how it arrived in central Iowa. Cumulative rainfall data from April 1 to July 20 in Boone, Iowa, was in the upper-middle range of the 30-year record at 19.5 inches.
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln
New county-level data shows U.S. irrigated farmland grew by more than 3 million acres between 1997 and 2022—but the national number hides a much more interesting story playing out county by county.
- Janelle Atyeo
By his calculations, Jordan Uldrich’s irrigated corn is set up to yield as much as 220 bushels an acre on less than a third of the synthetic nitrogen he used to use.
- Janelle Atyeo
It was a big change when Jason Regier moved his family from Kansas City, where he worked in youth ministry, back to southwestern Nebraska to transition the family farm as his dad retired.
- Faith Parum and Cydney Stables American Farm Bureau Federation
Key Takeaways
- Pat Melgares Kansas State University
As Kansas wheat harvest wraps up, producers are leaving the field with something just as valuable as the grain in their trucks -- data that can drive smarter decisions for years to come.
- Daniel Munch and Faith Parum American Farm Bureau Federation
Key Takeaways
Precision Conservation Management (PCM) is expanding its Nebraska presence with the addition of two new regions, bringing the program’s free, one-on-one farm data analysis to grain producers in northeastern and southeastern Nebraska for the first time.