In many areas of central Illinois, corn-after-corn yields were substantially below corn-after-soybean yields in 2010 and 2011. These yield drags, along with large increases in corn costs, have led some farmers to reevaluate corn-soybean cropping deci
The 2011 crop year will remembered for several reasons, the flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, the drought that plagued the Southern Plains, and the myriad of weather events (hail, wind, freeze) that lowered crop yields and production...
The temperature at the Purdue Agronomy Center for Research and Education near Montmorenci, Ind., reads 91 degrees on this August afternoon. Add the humidity and it feels close to 100.
Along with genetics and fertility, weather is critical in determining how a crop yields. How these three factors interact, overlap and intersect is what farmers try to improve upon in every field they farm, since every advantage they can glean means more...
Corn is one of the most widely grown crops in the US, and the US produces 40 percent of the world crop. But as with all crops, diseases threaten corn production.
Encouraging results from southern field trials of a new biological agent to combat snails in grain crops have researchers on track for development of a commercial control.
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