Young, aspiring consultant John Bixler trailed after a Missouri Bootheel cotton grower, constantly talking as he tried to convince the farmer to hire him to scout some of his fields. Bixler was home from graduate school at Mississippi State University trying to cobble a...

When the Reiss family reintroduced cotton to its crop rotation in 2017, they kept their expectations in check. It turned out to be the healthiest cotton crop they'd ever grown.

Palmer amaranth may be native to the Southeast, but it has quickly shown it can be extremely adaptable. The weed was most recently found in North Dakota.

Livestock grazing affects wildlife habitat, but whether that impact is a positive or a negative has a lot to do with management and the environment.

Hi. My name is Meredith, and I have a confession to make: I'm addicted to hats (and coffee and dry shampoo, but for the sake of this article, I'm sticking to hats).

Thomas Glascock got an early start as a premier beef breeder. His grandparents gave him a purebred Red Angus heifer as a birthday gift when he was just 6 years old. By the time he was a third-grader, the granddaughter from that first heifer won the "Triple Crown" of...

Q: I have a John Deere 5085E tractor with a front-wheel drive. It has a hub on the front wheels that seems to have an oil plug in the end. How do I check the oil in that housing, and should the oil be changed? The hub rotates with the wheels.

In mid-August 2018, Bayer's purchase of Monsanto was complete after lengthy negotiations, much regulatory scrutiny and extensive mandatory spin-offs. The Progressive Farmer editors were offered a chance to sit down with some of the new leadership one day after the big...

Nothing about cutting costs is easy, as farmers are well aware. They've been on a quest for the past few years to find the best deals on seed, fertilizer and other variable expenses. Lowering input costs as much as possible without sacrificing yield provided the best...

Jimmy Wedel was tired of growing cotton for little, if any, profit. He was frustrated that herbicides, insecticides and other chemicals weren't doing their jobs. And, he was concerned about the potential exposure to his family and wildlife. With a little gambler in his blood, he...

Rural America is widely credited with giving now-President Donald Trump his margin of victory over Hillary Clinton two years ago. By the results of our newest DTN/The Progressive Farmer Zogby Analytics poll, rural America does not regret the decision--and it is motivated to...

Growing conditions in 2018 were the definition of a mixed bag. There was an excessively wet spring in parts of the Eastern Corn Belt, debilitating drought in Kansas and Missouri, and timely rains in Nebraska that have dryland corn holding its own against its irrigated brethren.