Planning for 2025 means planning for uncertainty. At some point during the season, your farm will face too much water, or too little, high wind, heat, cold and everything in between. While not every ...

Some of the best agronomic decisions Dean Sponheim has made on his north-central Iowa farm were driven by economics. In 1999, on one field, he began strip-tilling to reduce soil crusting, which led to ...

Climate-smart practices include techniques that build soil carbon, like cover-cropping, not tilling fields after harvest and adding biochar or finely ground silicate rock to soils; and those that ...

The production of oilseed crops, including species such as camelina, canola, and winter oilseed rape, is increasingly pivotal to meeting global demands for renewable biofuels, food, and industrial ...

The Delmarva Peninsula stands out as a prominent hub for broiler production, accounting for production of nearly 600 million broilers annually (Delaware Chicken Association, 2023). In 2022, Delaware ...

The business of growing crops has become more complicated as the agriculture industry is challenged with increasing production demands while minimizing environmental impact. New technologies and a ...