
Last year's dry conditions at harvest are affecting some soybean seed germination rates. Here's how to account for it and ensure a desired final stand.
Oil futures extended losses Wednesday morning as worries over economic growth took center stage after the first estimate of U.S. GDP growth in...
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Meet Alabama farmer Stuart Sanderson who will be reporting each week for DTN's View From the Cab series.
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DTN Crops Editor Jason Jenkins began his journalism career full time in 2000. While his repertoire of communications tools has evolved and expanded through the years, one passion has remained constant: telling stories that connect with an audience.
Jenkins grew up on a small family farm in northwest Illinois. He attended the University of Missouri where he earned a bachelor's degree in agricultural journalism. Prior to joining the DTN team, Jenkins and his wife, Allison, founded Mill Creek Communications Services, a custom multimedia content business, in 2016. Jenkins also previously served as managing editor of Rural Missouri magazine as well as an information specialist for University of Missouri Extension. Jenkins and his family reside on a farm in Missouri's Callaway County.
Last year's dry conditions at harvest are affecting some soybean seed germination rates. Here's how to account for it and ensure a desired final stand.
The 2025 Commodity Classic in Denver offered participants a look at new products and programs now available or coming soon. Here's a rundown on some developments of interest to corn and...
On Tuesday, EPA announced the next step in its quest to make pesticide registration comply with the Endangered Species Act for decades, releasing the final Insecticide Strategy that will guide...
Last year's dry conditions at harvest are affecting some soybean seed germination rates. Here's how to account for it and ensure a desired final stand.
Wheat grown in the U.S. undergoes extensive testing to match the right class of wheat with its end-product niches. The overall goal is to continue to push quality to benefit growers, as well as...
Last season, corn leafhoppers expanded their range as far north as Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota, bringing corn stunt disease to new fields. What's in store for 2025?
For many winter wheat producers, this year is starting off much like last year, with a crop that's poised to succeed if Mother Nature provides the needed rainfall.
Three popular herbicides currently carry labels requiring threatened and endangered species protections. A Georgia weed scientist offers a five-step process to complying with these requirements.
Since being introduced in 2003, corn hybrids containing Bt traits to control rootworms have helped farmers protect their crop. A new study suggests that farmers may be planting too much of a good thing.
Despite recent efforts to transform its business model, St. Louis-based Benson Hill, known for developing soybeans with enhanced compositional traits, has filed for bankruptcy.
Farmers raising winter and spring wheat under both dryland and irrigated conditions are encouraged to enter the 10th annual National Wheat Yield Contest.
The 2025 Commodity Classic in Denver offered participants a look at new products and programs now available or coming soon. Here's a rundown on some developments of interest to corn and soybean farmers.
The 2024 National Wheat Yield Contest winners glean production insights while growing high-yielding, high-quality grain.
Wheat grown in the U.S. undergoes extensive testing to match the right class of wheat with its end-product niches. The overall goal is to continue to push quality to benefit growers, as well as the industry.
Every snowflake has a silver lining -- and it just happens to be made from free nitrogen fertilizer.
While meteorological spring begins in less than three weeks, the potential for winterkill in winter wheat remains across the Central Plains as below-freezing temperatures return.
Here are strategies the 2024 winners of the NCGA National Corn Yield Contest use to put more bushels in the bin.
Farmers enter this season without a post-emergence, over-the-top dicamba product registered for weed control in soybeans and cotton. What does it mean for the controversial chemistry? Here are some do's and don'ts.