Your root zone determines the level of a field's productivity. Managing what happens to the biologic teamwork between soil, nutrients and roots offers a prime opportunity to farm even more efficiently.

You read the label. You know the rules. Never spray dicamba or 2,4-D where it might drift onto crops that are sensitive to auxin herbicides.

Paul Neher's "dairy-barn-to-hog-finisher-to-farm-shop" conversion was a work salvaged from innumerable places--and an assist from Craigslist.

In 2014, ag economists at the American Bankers Association's annual agricultural conference told lenders to expect the downtrend in farm profits to last five years. We are in Year 4 of that prediction. Are we at the bottom yet?

Cellulosic technology companies have invested time and millions of dollars to explore ways to convert biomass into cellulosic ethanol for the better part of 20 years.

Imports of organics have soared in recent years, but there are growing doubts about whether those products are actually organic at the point of sale in the U.S.

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is again allowing U.S. dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) to be imported without charging an 11% value-added tax. The move could alter the global market dynamics for the better.