John Weber, a corn/soybean and hog producer from Dysart, Iowa, is passionate about improving water quality. The past president of the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC)and member of the NPPC environmental committee thinks every farmer should be doing something to...

There's never been a better time to lower soybean seeding rates. Backed by genetic advances and modern seed treatments, Virginia farmer Stephen Ellis has been steadily thinning stands for years.

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.