The USDA has authorized spring planting of Genuity Roundup Ready sugar beets.

Keeping the soil permanently covered is the best way to increase profits in farming no matter where a producer lives or what kind of soil his fields have, says Juca Sa from Ponta Grossa, Brazil.

Maryland farmers participating in the Maryland Department of Agriculture's (MDA) Cover Crop Program planted a record 398,679 acres of cover crops on their farms last fall to control soil erosion, reduce nutrient runoff and protect water quality in streams, rivers, and the Chesapeake Bay.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the next general signup for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) will begin on March 14, 2011, and continue through April 15, 2011.

Demand for U.S. farmland has jumped to a five-year high, spurred on by a profitable grain market and a boost in buyer interest from both farm operators and land investors.

A study between scientists at the USDA-Agricultural Research Service Water Management Research Unit and Colorado State University found approximately 44% of fields demonstrated rapid atrazine degradation activity.

Farmers facing the 2011 season will find answers to some of their toughest challenges Feb. 4 in Des Moines, Iowa, at the "Weed, Seed and Soil Summit."

hey pop up in farm fields across 22 states, and they’ve been called the single largest threat to production agriculture that farmers have ever seen.

List of Equipment For Sale, Wanted from the 19th Annual National No-Tillage Conference has been posted on No-Till Farmer's Web site.

Storing just one inch of water in an acre of soil is worth $25 to $30 per acre, and that fact gets the attention of Central Great Plains farmers served by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers.