MEDIA BY MIKE MCGINNIS
Southwest Iowa Soybeans in June By: 06/05/2012 @ 8:31am

Area farmers say rain is needed

Seed check By: 04/11/2012 @ 11:48am

Iowa farmer begins corn planting.

Nasty Nor'easter By: 10/29/2011 @ 6:47pm

Farmers in southcentral Pennsylvania just received nearly 9.00-inches of snow in one of the worst October snowstorms on record.

Nasty Nor'easter - Halloween Christmas? By: 10/28/2011 @ 11:00pm

With harvest already delayed from late maturing and a wet fall, Lancaster, Pennsylvania farmers now have to wait for heavy amounts of snow to melt.

Nasty Nor'easter - Poor Visibility By: 10/28/2011 @ 11:00pm

Though I was in Pennsylvania for the first time, the October snowstorm offered images similar to the Midwest's farming landscape. This is a hazy look at a very sharp looking Amish farm in Lancaster ...

Nasty Nor'easter - White-capped Corn By: 10/28/2011 @ 11:00pm

Corn growers have most of this year's crop harvested here. I'm standing near a cornfield in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. Yields have averaged between 150-180 bu./acre.

Nasty Nor'easter - Marketeye Snowman By: 10/28/2011 @ 11:00pm

I stopped to get the USDA November Crop Report numbers from this 6-feet tall snowman in southcentral Pennsylvania. He said, "I don't know them. Just follow your nose."

Nasty Nor'easter - Trading Hay By: 10/28/2011 @ 11:00pm

Jim Kreider, a longtime Lancaster County, Pennsylvania farmer, buys and sells hay. This year, one ton of hay is selling for $300, straw $200. This is 30% higher than a year ago. "I've never seen snow like ...

U.S. 2010 Corn Harvest Underway in Louisiana. Decent yields reported. By: 08/17/2010 @ 11:00pm

Keith Bringol harvests corn near Wisner, LA. Good yields reported, but less than a year ago.

2010 U.S. Corn Harvest Underway - Smaller Corn Yields By: 08/17/2010 @ 11:00pm

Hot, dry weather has dropped corn yields in Franklin Parish, Louisiana. The parish had 15.5 inches below normal.

2010 U.S. Corn Harvest Underway - Going Corn, Not Cotton By: 08/17/2010 @ 11:00pm

Louisiana farmers are growing 12,000 less cotton acres in 2010, switching to corn.

2010 U.S. Corn Harvest Underway - Added Storage By: 08/17/2010 @ 11:00pm

Jack Dailey farms in Extension, LA. He has added more on-farm corn storage.

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