Brice Custer breaks down the economics of cover crops on his operation in western Kansas by comparing what his cover crops cost compared to how much he saves by not spraying weeds.

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Soil labs report that about 65% of soils they test from across the Corn Belt are deficient in sulfur. "It was close to zero percent until the early 2000s," says Steve Gauck, a Beck's Hybrids field agronomist.

"We will be at a bit more elevated risk in western Kansas this year," she notes. Plentiful rain throughout the summer allowed volunteer wheat to germinate and emerge continuously through the summer months and September, she says.

Ethanol demand has suffered little due to EPA's recent approvals of small-refinery exemptions (SRE) to the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), a new analysis from a University of Illinois (UI) economics professor finds.

Declining cattle numbers in some regions of the country are a door of opportunity for Nebraska's producers. That's what Jim MacDonald believes, and it was the focus of a field day earlier this year at the Eastern Nebraska Research and Extension Center, near Mead.

Matt Danner climbed into one of a pair of John Deere S680s the family farm ran for the 2018 harvest. From the high perch of his combine cab, Danner cut through a "very good" corn crop knowing well, that by wider measures, the fall's farm economy is stable at...