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What if you could stretch your corn supplies a bit further?

When forage supplies are tight, emergency crops provide an opportunity to bridge the gap.

When forage supplies are tight, emergency crops provide an opportunity to bridge the gap.

No. 1 on the list is what all quality silage should have.

Virginia Tech researchers generate energy in a new way from a fuel source that’s 13 billion years old.

Center-pivot irrigation systems, once thought to be suitable only for Kansas, Nebraska or California’s San Joaquin Valley, are going up in the eastern Corn Belt.

Novozymes has signed an agreement with Natural Industries Inc., which is researching how soil microorganisms can help combat weeds, insects and other pests.

The subsurface irrigation method, first adopted in the U.S. for vegetables, fruits and nuts, is supplementing and even replacing center-pivot systems for field crops.

Herbicide carryover is something you’ll want to give thought to as you plan for the 2013 crop season.

Researchers at North Carolina State University and USDA–Agricultural Research Service (USDA–ARS) are studying the way carbon moves in and out of the soil and its role in how much carbon dioxide (CO2) is released into the atmosphere.