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Tips to handle the holiday buzz and winter meetings when your ears are a disability.

Tips to handle the holiday buzz and winter meetings when your ears are a disability.

Cotton harvest provides Progressive Farmer Crops Editor Matthew Wilde with a first-hand education on how the crop is grown, processed and marketed. Farmers, ginners and merchandisers were the teachers.

Harvest losses resulted in plenty of volunteer soybeans this fall in areas that where early harvested fields received enough rain and warm weather to drive germination.

Crops are in danger of loss as long as they are still in the field. If weather-related damage occurs, the USDA Risk Management Agency can guide farmers through the reporting process.

Writing and reading about farm safety may be tough reminders, but we are still losing too many farmers.

Crop farming begins and ends with a seed. Within each tiny package lies a factory of possibilities. The next few weeks will feature stories all about seed, the seed industry and seed selection tips.

Have weeds outsmarted us? History provides some clues and challenges us to understand evolutionary biology.

A group of University of Illinois weed scientists are working to determine how weeds become resistant to herbicides.

There's a lot to be learned beyond potential yield prospects by going into the corn field this time of year.

Memories of a country dirt road come crawling back with every warning about the arrival of an epic surge of fall armyworms.

The colorful, but very destructive spotted lanternfly has traveled farther west to Indiana. Farmers are asked to keep an eye open for the pest.

The SCN Coalition says that soybean fields infested with soybean cyst nematode (SCN) are at increased risk of sudden death syndrome (SDS).

Why does it rain in one field and not another? Learn some of the reasons from DTN's meteorologist.

Hail events are rarely welcome and recent strong storms have been taking a toll on midseason crops.

Checking in on corn after the wind requires some patience and waiting to see if it will stand back up.

When my husband's eyes nearly swelled shut, I went on the hunt for the reason and found out about a common weed worry.

More farmers are now rotating SCN resistance, according to a recently released study. Avoiding yield losses is always a good move, but it takes on added meaning when prices climb.

Kansas hard winter wheat takes a beating, but overall losses expected to be minimal.

Keep it clean out there -- dirty boots can track in a bunch of unwanted weeds.