Doug Stout and Jay Myers say direct seeding is still challenging them to learn and adapt, but it's also paying huge dividends in their operations.

Bags of corn seed that mix genetically modified hybrids with and without Bt toxins that kill insects provide farmers easier compliance with federal regulations but could, over time, hasten insect resistance to Bt, a Purdue University entomologist said.

Effective marestail management programs include appropriate burndown herbicides and also residual herbicides, to control marestail that emerge between soybean planting and early to mid-June.

Syngenta announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted registration approval for the Agrisure Viptera 3220 trait stack, which offers corn growers dual modes of action against above-ground (lepidopteran) insect pests.

USDA's NASS released the quarterly Grain Stocks report, showing corn stocks in all positions at 6.52 billion bushels as of March 1, down 15% from last year.

Trimble announced has entered into a agreement to acquire certain assets related to the OmniSTAR Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signal corrections business from Fugro N.V.

The smaller than expected U.S. corn crop in 2010 and the rapid rate of increase in the use of corn for ethanol has resulted in prospects for very small domestic stocks at the end of the 2010-11 marketing year.

The Iowa Soybean Association On-Farm Network® today released a fungicide management calculator tool it has developed to help growers determine the probability of seeing a profitable return from using fungicides on soybeans.

Deciding when to apply micronutrients [Boron (B), Manganese (Mn), Zinc (Zn), Copper (Cu), Molybdenum (Mo), Iron (Fe), Nickel (Ni) and Chlorine (Cl)] in crop production systems is often a difficult task.

Chicago corn futures reached $7 a bushel for the first time since July 2008 after the government cut its estimate for U.S. supplies.