Farmers often couch when they say, “I wish it would stop raining” because Mother Nature is pretty adept at turning off the faucet during the growing season. I often think of a Missouri farmer who told me a ...

This is Claremont, South Dakota, population 130 in the 2000 Census. This marker is what’s left of the school that dated way back to 1912. For a small town, Claremont has quite an illustrious history ...

Whether it’s a normal cycle or the fallout of global climate change, area farmers and residents know the water is raising havoc with crop production, road budgets, and other infrastructure. The flood shots ...

The project died. It’s a good thing, too—otherwise, you’d see center pivots wheel deep in water, surrounded by former farmland in the Claremont/Langford area. Local estimates peg that amount of land ...

Living in an area like this makes being a good “bad road” driver a necessity. Gravel is a luxury on many county and township roads, as cash-strapped local governments have to pick and choose priorities. ...

So what’s up in the future? Well, things can change. Fields like this one were mainly planted just a couple years ago before cattails and swamp grass took over in 2009 and 2010. Dry weather could quickly ...

Now that harvest has wrapped up in many areas, you have some time to take a good hard look at what worked and what didn’t in 2010. Here are a few agronomic developments and challenges that Pioneer Hi-Bred ...

Pioneer is also working on traits to improve N use, says Luce. It’s using both native and transgenic approaches. These traits aim at boosting yields by 10% with existing N levels, or maintaining yields with ...

One bright spot in such situations is that high-clearance equipment is now available that can add N as corn nears tasseling and beyond. “Normally, you can get a response,” says Luce. That’s the case ...

Non-ionic surfactants can play a role in boosting fungicide performance. Just use them at brown silk or later to reduce the chances of malformed ears, says Dickey.

Don’t be suckered into planting low corn plant populations. Take this advice literally. If you don’t, you’ll end up with suckers—those immature ears that steal water and nutrients but produce no grain ...

Farmers often couch when they say, “I wish it would stop raining” because Mother Nature is pretty adept at turning off the faucet during the growing season. I often think of a Missouri farmer who told me a ...

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