A southern Illinois agronomist says many farmers in his region have lost a month of the growing season. “The last time that I ...

Cover crops glue the soil together and pay back water use with interest, helping reduce dust storms and improve long-term soil health for sustainable farming.

A southern Wisconsin farmer says his corn looks good, but the soybeans are struggling a little. Ryan Nell raises crops on ...

Aphids, which are probably the most common insect in gardens, are small, usually light green — though there are black, gray ...

Shawn Peebles found himself dead broke. He was farming 7,000 acres in Augusta, Arkansas, growing soybeans, rice, and corn ...

The second chart shows what Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie calls the opportunity cost — the difference in net profit over the two years that resulted from planting the cover crops and ...

One of the best ways to prevent weeds is stopping them before their roots settle more is to manually dig them up yourself.

Michigan, Ohio and Ontario failed to reduce the total phosphorus entering Lake Erie in 10 years. State officials and environmentalists are butting heads on where to go from here.

Researchers from the University of Kansas have created a web-based app for the public that provides free satellite monitoring ...

We need to be more efficient. Prices have gone up on things like seed and fertilizer, like everything else. We do get higher ...

Preparing a seedbed. “Tilling helps prepare a uniform seedbed,” says Enroth. This makes it easier to plant seeds directly in the soil. In a no-till system, there may be debris left from previous ...

Wes Kent, a livestock farmer from Augusta County, said he tries to demonstrate that conservation programs make economic sense ...