Overall, the county wheat crop looks like it could be heading for a near-record year, according to Jeffrey Graybill, an agronomist and Penn State Extension educator.
Organic soybean producers using no-till and reduced-tillage production methods that incorporate cover crops — strategies that protect soil health and water quality — can achieve similar yields at competitive costs compared to tillage-based production. Read more
In its first peek at the 2020 planting season, USDA projected soybean acreage would jump 10% and corn 8%, while wheat plantings would fall to their lowest level since records began. Read more
Is waterhemp hampering your soybean yield?Bryan Brown with New York State Integrated Pest Management offered suggestions for mitigating its effects in his presentation at the Soybean & Small Grains Congress presented by Cornell’s Northwest Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops Program recently. Read more
Grain storage and handling can make a big difference between providing quality feed for your animals or customers and finding out months later that you’ll come up short. Read more
Bayer has announced it is developing an herbicide with a novel mode of action, the first for post-emergence control on large acreage in 30 years. Read more
Farmers from eastern Pennsylvania gathered at Penn State’s Lehigh County Crops Conference on Jan. 30 to learn about nitrogen management and ways to improve wheat yields. Read more
When it comes to producing soybeans in the northern tier of Pennsylvania, Tioga County dairy farmer Raymond Martin knows his yields will likely never match those produced by growers in Lancaster County. Read more
Weather can be unpredictable, and in Virginia, farmers are hoping that 2020 weather is more balanced than what they experienced last year &tstr;erratic rains to no rain. Read more
Erik and Brittany Carbone were making cannabidiol oil in their Long Island kitchen when they took the opportunity to ditch their jobs — his construction and hers Equinox fitness instructor in 2017. Read more
Daryl Alger, owner of Mark Hershey Farms Inc., has been fine-tuning his planting through participating in the National Corn Growers’ yield contest for the past 40 years. Read more
