We have been receiving reports since corn harvest began this fall about an unusual phenomenon: yields of the outside 8 to 24 rows on the south or west edges of corn fields show lower or much lower yields than corn farther into the field. The damage tends to be relatively uniform down or across the field, and is on field edges that border a soybean field, road, ditch, or another short-growing crop (such as forage legumes or grasses) other than corn.

Roll up your sleeves for some practical, hands-on information that will save you soil, time, fuel — and money. Conservation tillage is the focus of the ninth annual University of Minnesota Extension Conservation Tillage Conference and trade show Feb. 18 and 19, at the Holiday Inn and Suites, St. Cloud, MN. This conference emphasizes proven farmer experience and applied

In order to help farmers optimize their seed hybrids and increase their yields, Kinze Manufacturing, Inc. announces the world’s first electric multi-hybrid concept planter.

If you use cover crops and allow waterfowl hunters onto your property in the fall, you should pay close attention here.

Dawn Equipment, a Sycamore, Ill.-based manufacturer of actively controlled planter attachments, has entered into an agreement with 640 Labs, a Chicago-based agriculture analytics company and manufacturer of the 640 Drive data acquisition device, to provide farmers access to ground hardness data and machine control features of Dawn hydraulic actuation products on an open platform. Dawn user data is maintained in a private cloud and any third party use of their data requires them to specifically opt in to those services.

In order to help farmers optimize their seed hybrids and increase their yields, Kinze® Manufacturing, Inc. announces the world’s first electric multi-hybrid concept planter. Multi-hybrid technology provides farmers with the ability to change the seed hybrid they are planting automatically as the planter moves through the field. Instead of selecting an average seed variety for use across an entire field, seed hybrids can be selected and automatically planted to suit different field management zones.

The EPA has just established tolerances for the first time for metaldehyde for corn and soybean, which will mean that molluscicides for slug control containing this product, such as Deadline MPs, should be available in the future for both corn and soybean in Ohio.

A record number of voluntary conservation practices adopted by Chesapeake Bay farmers since 2006 have significantly reduced the amount of nitrogen, sediment and phosphorus leaving cultivated croplands, according to a new report released.

AGCO, Your Agriculture Company (NYSE:AGCO), announced today a new AgCommand integration with the Raven Industries Slingshot system connected to its Fuse Technologies initiative.

The modern-farming-practices race is getting another dose of steroids as DuPont and Deere collaborate on bringing advanced field-management technology to the farmer.