Crops

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is sending a clear message to America’s farmers: Don’t farm naked—plant cover crops… LOTS of them. At the...

At meatpacking plants across the U.S., it’s starting to feel a little too much like  deja  moo … Who could forget the early COVID...

Wheat producers and marketers have recently been on a wild ride. And they’d better buckle up… ’cause it ain’t over yet . Refresher :...

With a major  investment  in Bloomfield Robotics, Kubota is stepping up for smart ag, and targeting tree and vine crops. The joint...

It’s a berry  good day for Pairwise, a company inching closer to making berries seedless through their work altering blackberries’ and...

Jesse Vollmar grew up on a traditional row crop farm in Michigan… with a twist. A 1993 decision by the family positioned the farm as an...

Shell your corn, clean that corn head, and park it in the back of the shed. A host of analysts agree you may not need it as much next...

Even as Bayer’s glyphosate plant in Louisiana was  offline  for more than five weeks because of Hurricane Ida, and concerns about supply...

The 2021 pumpkin crop is spookier than ever. But it’s not because of super-scary carvings everyone is posting to Insta. Yep, you guessed...

Pluton Biosciences is today’s microbe sleuth and they just  raised  $6.6M in seed money to take their operation to the next level. The...

Farmers Business Network (FBN) is blowin’ the seed industry’s cover with their recent Seed Relabeling Report. The problem:  While FBN...

Farmers will soon face a harsh reality when it comes to fertilizer availability and cost. China, the top exporter of phosphate, is...

U.S. farmers are going ( toma )toe to ( toma )toe with imports from Mexico, and it's not looking great. The facts:  Imports of tomatoes...

AgBiome , a crop protection company in North Carolina, has  raised  $116M in its latest funding round, co-led by Blue Horizon Ventures...

Tropical Storm Fred has cotton farmers looking for the extra spin cycle button to dry things out. The storm also struck economists with...

Bakers, beware. Flour prices are set to rise as extreme drought, market volatility, and skyrocketing input costs have the...

Curtin University in Perth, Australia is  lighting  the way to improved crop protection. The university and the Australian Nuclear...

Corn growers be like, “ What just happened here? ” A few short weeks after a bullish outlook on the future of ethanol, new legislation...

The U.S. is the reigning bean queen no more: instead, Brazil is now leading the global pack in soybean production. In the 2020-21...

Raise a glass and propose a toast to Western barley farmers… because the future of your affordable, refreshing pint may be a bit shaky. ...