Bi-weekly Purdue Extension hosts a Field Crop Update for Extension Educators and Specialists. These updates are usually shared online via the Purdue on the Farm and/or the Purdue Extension – Putnam ...

Stop 5: Fine Tuning Soil Fertility Recommendations and Utilizing Precision Agriculture for Fertilizer and Lime Applications: youtube.com/watch?v=S0tTu6Ey4js Farm ...

Plant breeders have always faced a brutal trade-off: the traits that matter most for food security, like drought tolerance or ...

For corn, USDA’s September Crop Production report showed a yield of 176.3 bu. per acre, which is 1.7 bu. per acre higher than the August report, and 4.3 bu. per acre above last year’s crop. With an ...

One Pennsylvania representative is pushing for an insecticide to be banned for use on crops, which would mirror legislation ...

Ascochyta blight represents a significant threat to field pea production worldwide. The disease is primarily caused by a complex of host-specific fungal pathogens, most notably Didymella pinodes and ...

The unpredictability of the weather from one year to the next might be the only thing you can predict in crop production. At times, you pray for rain, and at others, you hope it will stop. Excessive ...

For specialty crop farmers, 2025 has offered little relief from mounting financial pressures. Markets that once promised stable margins are now defined by volatility, with production expenses ...

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's latest principal field crop update for the 2025-26 crop year. The principal field crops covered in the report are wheat, durum, barley, oats, corn, rye, mixed grains ...

Pick almost any of the dozen or so typical dryland crops for Western Canada and the price outlook can be described as soft ...