The promise is for increased farm income, jobs and prosperity for Iowa. My concern is that more biofuels means more corn growing, fertilized and herbicide and pesticide use.

Patrick cultivates 200 acres of industrial hemp as well as vegetables, wheat, soybeans, corn, and hardwood, all on land where his great grandfather, Byron, an enslaved man, worked as a sharecropper ...

Don’t plant radishes when they are subject to hot weather since temperatures over 95 tend to make them especially angry and unbearably hot. Some crops should never be planted near each other.

While corn planting is pretty much wrapped up for 2025, there are still some acres remaining as producers consider prevent plant as they wait for favorable weather. But the market is also keeping a ...

Evolution of Corn Planting in the U.S. In this edition of American Agriculture History Minute, Mark Oppold takes us back to the late 1700s and early 1800s, a period when corn planting was a ...

For example, the average seed corn cost per bag is $267², and a bag contains approximately 80,000 kernels, enough to plant around 2.2 acres (at the recommended corn planting population of 35,000 ...

1973, 1981, 2007, 2012, 2018, 2019, 2022… we each recall one or more years in our past when an extraordinarily wet Ohio spring prevented us from planting corn and soybeans in a timely fashion, if at ...

U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, whose district includes Omaha, said in a news release that his office learned ICE served a civil warrant at only one facility in the city, Glenn Valley Foods, and it was ...

SOFIA, BULGARIA — If current favorable weather holds, Bulgaria’s corn crop for marketing year 2025-26 is expected to recover significantly from last season’s precipitous decline due to extreme drought ...