Hi. My name is Meredith, and I have a confession to make: I'm addicted to hats (and coffee and dry shampoo, but for the sake of this article, I'm sticking to hats).

Palmer amaranth may be native to the Southeast, but it has quickly shown it can be extremely adaptable. The weed was most recently found in North Dakota.

While preparing for a recent talk on change management, I read William Bridges's "Managing Transitions," a helpful book containing both conceptual models and practical strategies for thinking about family and business transitions. While we often talk about transitions in the...

Some pests have a lot of nerve.

As recent hail and thunderstorms moved through our western Kansas community, I was reminded of how little farmers and ranchers control some of the key factors in their business. Not only the weather, but talk of tariffs, the impact of immigration policies, rising interest...

The good old summertime may, at times, not be so good for crop development--especially when new kernels and seeds are forming and filling. Research on corn growth and development indicate that, during the fill stage of the crop, overnight low temperatures in a range of...

Brace roots are the Rodney Dangerfields of the cornfield. The funky, finger-like protrusions have been around since the teosinte, the grass ancestor of maize.