Warning against “blind ambition,” Ron Robbins placed his row crop acres on the scales, spurred by successive years of ...

Midwest farmers see higher corn prices from record exports while navigating trade negotiations and emerging international ...

Farmers and landowners in the Plains states and upper Midwest stand to benefit the most from one of the biggest expansions of commodity program support in decades, according to economists who have ...

Researchers find that diversifying crops and integrating livestock improves farm efficiencies and ecosystem services in the US Midwest. The work is published in PNAS Nexus. Mathieu Delandmeter, Bruno ...

Machinery harvests corn in Scotts Bluff County, Neb., last year. Low prices for row crops and high costs for fertilizer are squeezing Midwest row-crop farmers while the Southeast is still on an ...

Despite the immense uncertainty in agriculture due to the escalating trade war, farmers do not have the luxury of delaying planting decisions – or planting itself. Now that spring has arrived, they ...

The Midwest is bracing for a brutal heat wave this week, and millions of acres of corn crops are about to make it feel even worse. As temperatures soar across the region, a natural process called ...

Like the start of a big NASCAR race or the beginning of a Championship game, many farmers in southern Minnesota and Iowa began full-scale field work during the week of April 13-19. Farm operators in ...

Spring fieldwork got off to a good start in some portions of the upper Midwest in mid-late April; however, conditions in other areas were too wet to see the initiation of spring planting. Frequent ...

Indiana summers are so hot that even the corn sweats. By late July, the Midwest's most abundant crop is prospering and perspiring enough to cause a slight bump in humidity levels. The water absorbed ...