Emily Unglesbee

There's a lot going on inside those spiky corn leaves that take shape in cornfields under the hot summer sun.

Sulfur deficiency? Herbicide injury? Harmless genetic quirk? Here are the reasons your corn might be donning stripes this summer.

Crops, weeds and herbicides can all behave differently under severe heat stress. Here are five things to watch for when spraying in the heat of summer.

Arkansas applicators can use dicamba through June 30 again, after the state's Supreme Court issued an emergency stay of a circuit court's restraining order that had halted dicamba use earlier in the month.

Amidst a severe drought in the Northern Plains, farmers are taking stock of worsening crop conditions.

Bayer and BASF are facing a new wave of lawsuits over their dicamba herbicides, even as they appeal a verdict against them and Bayer seeks to settle past soybean injury claims.

Wireworms can lurk beneath growers' radar for years, slowly building their populations, thanks to an unusual lifecycle and insecticide tolerance.

Editor's Note: This story, first posted on May 4, is being updated as litigation in Arkansas has changed the legal status of dicamba herbicides in that state. DTN will continue to post updates as the situation evolves.

The newly required volatility reduction agents for dicamba herbicides come with a learning curve, particularly Sentris. Here's what you need to know.

EPA didn't follow procedure and senior officials manipulated data when registering dicamba herbicides in 2018, according to a new report from the agency's Inspector General.

Spring grain crops are perking up as temperatures rise after a cold start to the month. Recent rains eased dry conditions everywhere but the drought-plagued Northern Plains.

In the face of a lawsuit, EPA asked a federal court for a chance to revise parts of its glyphosate registration, while keeping the herbicide on the market.

A cool spring may have slowed cutworm's arrival, but temperatures are on the rise and these pests will be looking for breakfast in corn fields soon.

Emergence has been slow in many fields this spring. Early season stand assessments will be key.

Glufosinate (Liberty) herbicides can be finicky. Here's what first-time users should know.

Soybean growers with dicamba injury from 2015 and 2020 have three more weeks to file claims for a $300 million settlement.

Arkansas passed a rule expanding dicamba spraying to June 30 in the state; in Illinois and Indiana, the cutoff remains June 20.

GM mosquitoes are being released in Florida this week, and row-crop agriculture is next in line to use this futuristic type of pest control.

A developmental new corn variety from Bayer is tolerant to five herbicides -- glyphosate, dicamba, 2,4-D, glufosinate and quizalofop -- and undergoing regulatory review.

Some herbicides and other ag chemicals might be in short supply as production delays and shipping backlogs play out this spring during the planting season.

April planting prospects have been aided by welcome rains for many, even as drought deepens in the Northern Plains and Western U.S.

Corteva pulled a developmental dicamba product from the EPA registration process, the latest in a series of moves to distance itself from controversial ag chemicals.

DTN is tracking the arrival of rust diseases, cutworms and armyworms. What are you seeing?

Are you thinking of April-planted soybeans? These seven factors can help make sure it pays off.

Consider these new regs when spraying Xtend crops.

FieldWatch, a nonprofit that alerts herbicide applicators to specialty and organic crops is eager to expand to help row-crop farmers tackle an increasingly complicated landscape of...

How many volunteer corn plants can you expect, what herbicide-tolerance will they be and what crop are you planting into this spring?