Production Blog

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Hopefully this is the year that will live on with empathy as we learn what to embrace and leave behind from the pandemic year.

A recent series helps farmers stay focused on production costs and profitability. The topics include fighting SCN, increasing soybean yields, early planting, outsmarting weed resistance, variable seeding rates, and giving an in-furrow boost for a good start.

Getting gassed is no laughing matter. We have to do better if we want to keep anhydrous as a tool.

Harvest can be a rewarding, yet dangerous time for farmers. Safety needs to be top-of-mind to enjoy the fruits of a year's labor.

Give us some reminders of the beauty of harvest by entering #MyHarvest20 photo contest.

Often more than posies pass between generations.

An invitation to dinner in the field is a thing to celebrate, even if the guests are a bit late.

Bayer sets new vision revolving around a corporate philosophy of Health for All and Hunger for None.

The hot, dry conditions experienced in much of soybean country this summer likely raised SCN population densities.

There are lots of safety tools available today, but we are still losing too many farmers.

Officials are still digging into the origins of seeds that arrived in mailboxes this summer.

Is your corn all grown up? Look for the black layer to know when physiological maturity happens.

Learning about new crops is only one benefit of our weekly View From the Cab segments. Sometimes the highlight of the week is simply dissolving into a fit of the giggles.

Will we see record crops this year after all the uncertainty? Let me see your yield monitor.

Some simple formulas can help determine how corn and soybean yields are stacking up this year.

Surprise packages in the mailbox aren't necessarily welcome, and this week many received envelopes containing unidentified seeds. Recipients are being asked not to plant or discard and report to proper authorities.

This pandemic has eliminated many things and introduced a whole bunch of uncomfortable encounters.

The same plaintiffs that brought the recent dicamba case to the Ninth Circuit are behind a similar lawsuit targeting EPA’s registration of Enlist Duo.

A timely reminder that not all worst-case scenarios pan out, as this ag reporter once discovered.