Production Blog

Gifts don't have to be grand, sometimes they just need to be thoughtful. Here's a few that have been a hit -- or at least memorable.

Checking in on those we care about when the world dishes out disaster causes pause as we search for signs of hope.

We dipped into our supply of past View From the Cab farmers to gain clarity on input challenges. The doors are open to apply to be a correspondent for 2022.

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.

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.

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.

Do you hate the wheat tour? Do you whine about it online? You should probably go on one.

Common milkweed is one of the milkweed species that monarch butterfly caterpillars crave.

While the number of grassland birds has gone down, there is hope that ranchers can help be part of the solution to increase the population again by changing when hay is cut.