The three Rs have long been seen as the foundation of a well-rounded education. Now, some farmers are touting four Rs as a way to achieve a well-rounded nutrient strategy.

Massive floods like those in Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico create hours of video showing cars and trucks under water. But, after the cameras are all gone and the rain stops, what happens to the water-damaged vehicles?

Corn has a surplus problem. Again. The market gazes out in depressed wonder at an overhang that has climbed to 2.4 billion bushels. Without significant new uses for corn, this story will rerun itself year after year, continuing out as far as anyone is willing to look.

China's need for agricultural resources is driving the nation's investment in agriculture and food sectors abroad, USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) reports.

The Soy Transportation Coalition (STC) noted in a recent press release there was "widespread agreement that it is not a matter of if there will be a failure at one or more of our key lock and dam sites, it is a matter of when.

There is scant activity on an early-spring morning on the streets of tiny Paton, in central Iowa. What movement there is on this sunny, chilly day seems to be occurring at the Paton Pit Stop convenience store, on the east edge of town. The Pit Stop is across the street...

The new variable-rate fertilizer valve from Altek allows growers who use variable-rate planters to also vary fertilizer rates. The Vari-Feed motorized valve adjusts the volume of fertilizer at each outlet based on software and prescription maps.