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  • Plant breeders are utilizing new techniques to advance yield performance and traits in soybeans and corn, Image by Kurt Lawton / Getty Images / Brent Warren

    Science From The Field

    Science From The Field is brought to you by Pioneer.

  • Image by Beck’s

    Practical Research Drives Profitable Performance

    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.

  • Mother Nature is busy whipping up a recipe for wheat streak mosaic virus this year, Image by Kansas State Research and Extension

    Stop the Streak

    "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.

  • A new study finds that, so far, small-refinery waivers to the Renewable Fuel Standard have had no effect on ethanol demand, Image by Getty Images

    No Pressure

    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.

  • A five-year study looks at the results of a confinement system compared to a production system using multiple types of forages. The study will look at break-even comparisons and pregnancy rates, Image by Debra L. Ferguson

    Manage Expansion Goals

    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.

  • 2018 Zogby poll results reveal the concerns and important issues of the American farmer, Image by The Progressive Farmer

    The Pulse Of Rural America

    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...

  • China’s first case of African swine fever was found in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, in northeast China, Image by Dan Davidson

    Disease Hits Demand

    More reports of African swine fever in China have caused panic in the country's hog industry, as well as among pork consumers in China. If the disease continues to spread, it could also reduce feed demand and lower the soybeans China imports.

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