The water just wouldn’t go away. For weeks, the farm’s planting fields looked more like rivers than places to grow crops. Seeds got swept away, plants were damaged and in some cases uprooted. That’s been the story for grain farmers across the United States this year,...
Soybean numbers just keep growing. By the end of 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture expects the country’s soybean inventory to hit 910 million bushels, nearly double the amount available in 2018. That data highlights an already growing issue for farmers. A...
Where you store your grain can be as important as when you harvest it. Can on-farm corn storage help save money in the long-term? Or is it just too expensive compared to commercial options? The numbers don’t lie. Based on information from several studies, on-farm...
Farms across the country had to deal with a wet spring this year, creating more challenges for grain planting. Most farmers either had to wait for pools of water to drain out of the fields, or had to come up with ways to make it happen. In some cases, wet fields...
If you made a list of the biggest annoyances to farmers, insects would be near the top. No matter what time of year it is, there are always several types of insects attempting to make a meal out of your grain crop. How do you protect wheat crops from insects? Are...
It’s hard to be an American farmer right now. “Of the roughly 2 million U.S. farm households, slightly more than half report negative income from their farming operations each year,” says an August, 2018 report from the USDA’s Economic Research Service. Out of those...
