Michigan State study shows corn planting success depends on soil conditions and weather forecasts, not just calendar timing.

Flying over Ohio this time of year, green fields paint a lush picture. For one farmer, those fields were a blank canvas for something he was ready to create. “We’ve been doing the multi-hybrid ...

Lee Tesdell stands in a prairie strip on his farm near Slater, Iowa. He grows alfalfa and Kernza, a perennial grain, raises sheep and cash rents to a neighbor who grows corn and soybeans. Over the ...

As spring rolls in and fields begin to stir with activity, rural roads across the country come alive with the unmistakable signs of planting season. Tractors, sprayers, planters and other large ...

Unfertilized soybean fields with lower soil fertility should be planted earlier than high fertility fields, according to a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study that re-evaluates long-time ...