By Sean Mowbray Renewable diesel is a biofuel made from vegetable oils and animal fats touted by proponents as an almost ...

Essential crops like wheat, corn, sorghum, and coffee beans are at risk ... Feature image: Farmers working in a maize field in San Lorenzo, Chiapas, Mexico. Credit: Flickr/faoalc (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) ...

May 7th, 2025 by Jeffrey Christo Baseball has always been more than a game; it’s a narrative that weaves through the fabric ...

One acre of corn can produce oxygen for 130 people a year—but cloudy days cut that output in half. Here’s how sunlight powers ...

Ammonium nitrate, an artificial fertilizer, provided a huge boost to the corn crop by replacing the nitrogen in the soil. The same field could be planted in corn without crop rotation. Secondly ...

NAPERVILLE, Illinois, April 24 (Reuters) - Back for their eighth edition, the U.S. Crop Watch producers are off to their quickest-ever start on planting their corn and soybean fields. However ...

Fields with past gray leaf spot outbreaks are at higher risk of infection, especially in river bottoms or weedy areas that tend to have cool, moist air under the canopy. If a susceptible corn ...

A mid-Michigan farmer says he’s planting more corn this season to hopefully offset lower commodity prices. Zach Wagner tells Brownfield he just started getting seed in the ground over the weekend. “We ...

Ear count, not just population, makes corn yield. The first step to more ears per field is stand and ear counts. Determine the causes of gaps, late-emerging plants and missing ears so you know how ...

NAPERVILLE, Illinois, May 11 (Reuters) - When it comes to Chicago corn futures, speculators typically hold on to heavily bullish corn bets for an extended period. Ditching them after just a few ...

Miles away from the ocean, projects are afoot to clean up salty groundwater and use it to grow crops. Some say it’s a costly ...