In recent years, several companies and public institutions have developed apps for mobile devices with the goal of providing a service to agricultural consultants and growers with educational materials and support tools.

Growers have believed that crops will get the carbon dioxide they need from the surrounding air, but environmental scientist and Woods End Soil Lab founder Will Brinton says that's no longer the case.

Farmers tend to be busy all year round. For crop growers, spring, summer and fall are times to get physically involved in the field, whereas winter is the time for in-depth planning and preparation for the subsequent three seasons.

Now is a good time to clean and look over you combine before parking for the winter, to potentially save headaches in 2015, say Ohio State University extension researchers.

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.

Syngenta today announced that it has received the safety certificate for its Agrisure Viptera trait (event MIR162) from China's regulatory authorities, formally granting import approval. The approval covers corn grain and processing byproducts, such as dried distillers grains (DDGs), for food and feed use.

It's official. H.R. 5771: Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 (aka Tax Extenders Act) retroactively expanding the Section 179 deduction limits though Dec. 31, 2014, has been enacted.

On a vote of 76-16, last night the Senate passed the Tax Extender Bill, which will extend tax breaks through Section 179 deduction limits for 2014.

The cost of soybean seed has increased more than 225% since the introduction of glyphosate resistant varieties in 1996. This increase in price has caused growers to reduce the rate of seeding in fields. However, the lower crop seeding rate can lead to a more open canopy for weeds and increased competition with the crop.

Poultry litter can provide a significant and important supply of nutrients for crop production in areas where a supply of litter is available.