
There's plenty to read if you want to firm up your knowledge about genetically engineering crops.
Wall Street capped a volatile day of trading Friday with a broad rally that snapped the market's three-day losing streak.
Rising prices received for distillers dried grains and ethanol bolstered improving margins at DTN's hypothetical ethanol plant.
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Pamela Smith joined DTN/Progressive Farmer staff as Crops Technology Editor in 2012. She previously was seeds and technology editor for Farm Journal Media. In addition to writing, reporting and photography, Pamela served as the writing coach for the magazine staff. An Illinois native, she started her career as a field editor for Prairie Farmer magazine and has freelanced for a multitude of farm, food and travel magazines.
Pamela is a two-time winner of the American Agriculture Editor's Association Writer of the Year honors. In 2009, she received the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism award for a series on soybean rust. She was the first agricultural journalist to receive that coveted prize, often referred to as the Pulitzer of business journalism. In 2011, she received a second Neal award as part of a team covering the legacy of passing down the farm through the generations. She has also been named the journalist of the year by the American Phytopathological Society (plant pathologists) and the Weed Science Society of America. She was awarded a national food writing award for her profile of Father Dominic Garramone, a bread-baking priest. Four generations of her family farm in central Illinois.
There's plenty to read if you want to firm up your knowledge about genetically engineering crops.
In the next few weeks, DTN/Progressive Farmer is exploring the past and future of genetic engineering breakthroughs in agriculture. Today, we posted the first story of our special series called...
Soybean farmers whose fields had yield losses resulting from off-target dicamba movement in the past six years can now file claims as part of a settlement with Monsanto.
DTN is looking for two willing farmers to share their lives and views as part of our annual View From the Cab series.
A new corn and soybean web book is available as an instant, free and online reference tool from the Crop Protection Network.
There's plenty to read if you want to firm up your knowledge about genetically engineering crops.
Will consumers accept the next round of plant miracles?
In the next few weeks, DTN/Progressive Farmer is exploring the past and future of genetic engineering breakthroughs in agriculture. Today, we posted the first story of our special series called Gene Revolution Turns 25, looking...
Will consumers accept the next round of plant miracles?
Warmer temperatures allow additional nematodes to thrive in southern regions and educational efforts are underway to help farmers cope.
A chemical best known as a fever reducer and pain reliever for humans may also protect young cereal grain and row-crop plants.
Sorghum, the red-berried, lesser-known cousin of corn, is picking up fans across the country.
Overestimating leaf disease severity and insect defoliation is as easy as overfilling your plate at a potluck. Crop scouts now have a new tool to put estimates on a realistic diet.
The worst pathogen soybean growers face is continuing to spread and management is needed to protect yield.
There's a small gap between the 2020 harvest finish and 2021 go-time. Our View From the Cab farmers are using the time to get ready.
Looking over the top of a corn crop may get easier in coming years as short stature hybrids wend their way to market.
National Wheat Foundation annual National Wheat Yield Contest results show getting wheat to yield knows no boundaries if intensively managed.
Short-stature hybrids aim to fit fields of the future.
Hopefully this is the year that will live on with empathy as we learn what to embrace and leave behind from the pandemic year.
Young farmers share innovative ways to make room for themselves in an existing operation.
Meredith Bernard finds humor and realism in all aspects of her farm life -- from handling the hay rake to frying up a steak in a cast-iron skillet. She discusses transitioning to farm life and why telling your story matters.