Production Blog

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A giant show-and-tell farm grows clues to fight back against soybean cyst nematode.

Random packages of seeds that appeared in mailboxes last year are still being tracked, and additional guidance is being offered.

Update to DTN's interview with Corteva comes with announcement of a compromise with hedge fund Starboard Value.

Jim Collins discusses important issues facing agriculture and how Corteva Agriscience is positioning its product portfolio.

International Women's Day challenges us to celebrate women's achievements and raise an awareness against bias.

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 closer at the different attitudes about the gene...

It's time to go back to school on dicamba. There are no excused absences. Training is mandatory if you want to spray approved herbicides in Xtend crops this year.

The winter meeting season is here and here's a chance to refresh weed control and spray knowledge without leaving the farm.

Here's an opportunity to tell your story and give your view. Apply to be a contributor to our weekly View From the Cab series.