Crops

A new corn trait is in town, and  farmers will say yes, please and thank you. Counting the kernel: Pairwise , a new startup company from...

Five feet. Five feet stand between the American soybean industry and an additional  $461M  in annual revenue. The path to the cash is...

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the… whole U.S.? Hot drought conditions have been dominating row crop headlines. But specialty...

When they aren’t busy changing the face of biological crop protection, Eric Ward and Scott Uknes could be up to a whole list of...

Michigan Potash and Salt Co. (MPSC) in Evart, Michigan will harvest Borgen Bed (rock)  1.5 miles  below the surface for the purest potash...

When states began legalizing the cultivation of hemp in 2018, many farmers were optimistic. The versatile crop was making waves as the...

Life is like a box of chocolates… and the Ivory Coast really didn’t know what it was going to get. This year’s rainy season has been ...

Welcome to June, where that nice summer breeze is…  hopefully void of dicamba. It’s the time of year when farmers will be out spraying...

Sustainability is the name of the game for these startups who recently raked in new piles of investment dollars. Here’s a snapshot of...

China appears to be using the Pac-Man strategy for buying corn.  It’s pretty simple...  Gobble up everything in sight. By the numbers: In...

If almonds could talk, we bet that their hot take on 2020 might sound like “. ..what pandemic ?” The popular stone fruit crop had a...

As soybean prices skyrocket, global grain traders are looking for their very own  spy kids  to keep an eye on Brazilian farmers. The...

Brazil meatpackers aren’t messing around. High corn prices have big-time meat players, like JBS and BRF,  influencing  a pivot to wheat...

The pandemic might be winding down, but its effects on the ag supply chain are still ramping up. Herbicides and fungicides are the...

Cotton is on the up and up. Higher cotton exports and lower supply are driving the price of cotton up. As a result, the USDA  projected...

Honey, I shrunk the ...corn pile. Last Friday’s WASDE  report  for the month of April projected U.S. corn supplies or carryover to be...

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…another drone company. Guardian Agriculture , a Boston-based startup, just deposited a batch of seed...

Cover crops are ready for their time to shine, and one startup is doing its best job to make that a reality. At the intersection of...

Soybean oil demand is skyrocketing, and bean processors are pulling out their “Go Green” stickers and gearing up for what they believe...

Cash crops might be getting a new family member in the coming years, and  they might want to prep for the big, warm hug from cousin cacti....