
Entries are now being accepted for the 2025 National Sorghum Yield Contest, which features a new protocol for verifying yields.
Oil futures slid more than 1% Thursday morning on reports OPEC+ is considering another sizable production hike in July.
Ranchers have until Sept. 15, 2025, to file claims in the $83.5 million JBS antitrust settlement for those who sold cattle to major meatpackers...
It's wet in Alabama and dry in Nebraska, where farmers report weekly as part of DTN's View From the Cab series.
DTN Crops Editor Jason Jenkins began his journalism career full time in 2000. While his repertoire of communications tools has evolved and expanded through the years, one passion has remained constant: telling stories that connect with an audience.
Jenkins grew up on a small family farm in northwest Illinois. He attended the University of Missouri where he earned a bachelor's degree in agricultural journalism. Prior to joining the DTN team, Jenkins and his wife, Allison, founded Mill Creek Communications Services, a custom multimedia content business, in 2016. Jenkins also previously served as managing editor of Rural Missouri magazine as well as an information specialist for University of Missouri Extension. Jenkins and his family reside on a farm in Missouri's Callaway County.
Entries are now being accepted for the 2025 National Sorghum Yield Contest, which features a new protocol for verifying yields.
Last year's dry conditions at harvest are affecting some soybean seed germination rates. Here's how to account for it and ensure a desired final stand.
Crop scouts on the 2025 Hard Winter Wheat Tour estimated a crop averaging 53 bushels per acre, the second-highest predicted harvest result in the past 20 years.
Scouts on Day 2 of the Wheat Quality Council's 2025 Hard Winter Wheat Tour found improved field conditions, estimating a weighted average yield of 53.3 bpa for wheat in southwest and south-central Kansas.
Day 1 of the Wheat Quality Council's 2025 Hard Winter Wheat Tour produced a weighted average yield of 50.5 bpa despite the effects of both disease and drought on the crop.
The Wheat Quality Council holds its 2025 Hard Winter Wheat Tour in Kansas this week, offering the world a glimpse at how this year's crop is faring.
Entries are now being accepted for the 2025 National Sorghum Yield Contest, which features a new protocol for verifying yields.
On Tuesday, EPA announced the next step in its quest to make pesticide registration comply with the Endangered Species Act for decades, releasing the final Insecticide Strategy that will guide farmers' future use of these tools...
Last year's dry conditions at harvest are affecting some soybean seed germination rates. Here's how to account for it and ensure a desired final stand.
Wheat grown in the U.S. undergoes extensive testing to match the right class of wheat with its end-product niches. The overall goal is to continue to push quality to benefit growers, as well as the industry.
Last season, corn leafhoppers expanded their range as far north as Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota, bringing corn stunt disease to new fields. What's in store for 2025?
For many winter wheat producers, this year is starting off much like last year, with a crop that's poised to succeed if Mother Nature provides the needed rainfall.
Three popular herbicides currently carry labels requiring threatened and endangered species protections. A Georgia weed scientist offers a five-step process to complying with these requirements.
Since being introduced in 2003, corn hybrids containing Bt traits to control rootworms have helped farmers protect their crop. A new study suggests that farmers may be planting too much of a good thing.
Despite recent efforts to transform its business model, St. Louis-based Benson Hill, known for developing soybeans with enhanced compositional traits, has filed for bankruptcy.
Farmers raising winter and spring wheat under both dryland and irrigated conditions are encouraged to enter the 10th annual National Wheat Yield Contest.
The 2025 Commodity Classic in Denver offered participants a look at new products and programs now available or coming soon. Here's a rundown on some developments of interest to corn and soybean farmers.
The 2024 National Wheat Yield Contest winners glean production insights while growing high-yielding, high-quality grain.
Wheat grown in the U.S. undergoes extensive testing to match the right class of wheat with its end-product niches. The overall goal is to continue to push quality to benefit growers, as well as the industry.