New bulletin issued shows that rotation and nitrogen management are key components to optimizing corn production following alfalfa.

University of Illinois economist Darrel Good discusses what needs to take place in the market for corn prices to increase above $4 per bushel in 2017.

Whether you lose the heart of your watermelon or the heart of your line-up on your ball team, your overall production will suffer, and that is what has happened to U.S. corn production as all of the major corn growing states suffered a reduction from their expected trend yield.

Corn production is forecast at 10.7 billion bushels, down less than 1 percent from the August forecast and down 13 percent from 2011.

Even with higher average yields this year, substantially lower corn prices could have a disproportionately large impact on producer returns as anecdotal evidence suggests that a relatively small portion of the 2012 crop has been forward-priced at higher price levels.

USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (ARS) released its first estimate of the 2012-2013 corn-crop size and it's a big one.

U.S. farmers will expand their corn plantings by 4 percent this spring to the largest in 75 years, topping expectations due to surprise reductions in soybeans and spring wheat.

A Purdue University researcher has taken corn off steroids and found that the results might lead to improvements in that and other crops.