Depending on what glyphosate product you’ve purchased for this year, your application rate may need to be different than prior years to deliver the same amount of herbicide.

While many farmers already applied nitrogen (N) for corn last fall, others are getting ready for spring preplant applications.

A survey of the 2021 dry bean production year in Minnesota and North Dakota reports an increase in no-till and other reduced tillage methods compared to the previous year.

Promoting early season plant cover, primarily through the use of cover crops, can be more effective at reducing pest density and crop damage than insecticide applications, according to a Penn State-led team of researchers.

In a newly published study, the researchers suggest that the best pest management outcomes may occur when growers encourage biological control — in the form of pests' natural enemies — by planting cover crops and avoiding broad-spectrum insecticides as much as possible.

The report shows prospective soybean plantings are greater than prospective corn plantings for the first time in at least two decades.

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