Seeing topsoil and fertilizer washed away by a heavy spring downpour is an unsettling sight for farmers.

University of Missouri Extension weed scientist Kevin Bradley warns that burcucumber can reduce soybean yields by 48%, while toothed spurge is harmful to humans, cattle and horses.

For nearly 40 years, Larry Krystowski has successfully no-tilled soybeans, wheat and corn in northern Ohio near the shores of Lake Erie.

U.S. farmers from Louisiana to North Dakota are preparing to switch more land to soybeans as they seek to limit losses from a slumping corn market

You may get a whole lot more than you bargained for when you buy a used combine out of state.

The results of the National Corn Growers Association's 2014 national corn yield contest are in, and no-tillers and strip-tillers proved that conservation practices can compete just as well as conventionally tilled fields.

For the second year, a national survey of farmers has documented a yield boost from the use of cover crops in corn and soybeans, as well as a wide variety of other benefits. The survey also details the challenges and benefits farmers expect from cover crops, data on the costs of seed and establishment, and insight into how farmers learn to manage covers.

The two primary requirements for soybean seed germination are temperatures above 50 F and seed moisture percentages greater than 50%. Air temperatures and seed moisture content during seed-filling are well above these minimums. But soybean seeds almost never germinate before maturity. Soybean, like many other grain crops, possess several mechanisms that prevent sprouting before maturity.