A focus on efficient returns and adoption of precision agriculture equipment has changed the way many farmers think about their fertilizer app…
Bill Tiedje
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Bill Tiedje is staff editor for Iowa Farmer Today, Missouri Farmer Today and Illinois Farmer Today.
Increasing demands for power, precision, handling and efficiency shaped the evolution of the modern planter tractor and continues to steer the…
Farmers across the Midwest are keeping a close eye on herbicide-resistant weeds, insect pressures and long-term agronomics as they select corn…
HOPKINTON, Iowa — When the temperature drops and the snow flies, farmers in northeast Iowa are among the rural residents to start up their eng…
Fighting the No. 1 yield- robbing pest of soybeans grown in Iowa — soybean cyst nematodes — requires a multipronged approach, including resist…
ALDEN, Iowa — Never mind the year-round toil, in every season, at all hours of the day and no matter the weather, farm life is sweet.
Looking past trade negotiations and geopolitical tensions, economists expect growing feed and biofuel demand, shifting acres, strong but wanin…
Whether or not funds will decide to invest in ag commodities in early 2018 is a big question as the calendar flips on stagnant grain markets, …
Looking back on row crop markets in 2017, strong corn and soybean exports and steadily growing biofuels production met or exceeded expectation…
