When it comes to farming, no two years are ever the same. Each season brings its own unique mix of weather shifts, pest pressures and disease outbreaks, forcing growers to adapt. The 2025 season was a ...

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During a Strategic Farming webinar hosted by the University of Minnesota Extension on March 25, Jeff Coulter, University of Minnesota Extension corn agronomist, offered numerous considerations for the ...

Root pruning from corn rootworm can cause significant yield loss, up to 15% yield loss for every node pruned back to 1.5" of ...

Left to right: Mike Mulvaney, MSU associate professor of plant and soil sciences and Hartwig chair; Dru Carey, agricultural and biological engineering graduate student from Olive Branch; Wes Lowe, ...

Autonomous farm robots guided by GPS can plant and harvest multiple crops in close proximity, enabling beneficial interactions between different plants and potentially boosting biodiversity. Strip ...

Farmers in the Corn Belt are behind on planting spring crops this year, with cool and wet weather keeping them out of their fields. Many are now racing to get their corn and soybean acres planted ...

Farmers in the northern Plains are leaning in on crops that look to offer the best chance at profitability in 2025. Among those crops that look to gain the most acres are corn, sugarbeets and ...

Sweet corn fresh from the garden makes a tasty addition to a summer picnic, but gardeners need to plant sweet corn soon to enjoy this tasty treat throughout the summer. In this article, ...

No-till planting of sweet corn into a killed winter rye cover crop has the potential to provide soil health benefits such as reduced compaction, improved soil water holding capacity, reduced ...

Now is the time to start planting corn. Unlike fruit trees, however, where an orchard with more than one variety of apple, avocado, or apricot tree will result in larger harvests than if only one ...