Soybeans, Corn: Foliar Diseases – 5 Tips to Get Accurate Diagnosis – DTN

🕔Jul 13, 2018Have you ever thought about how hot the back of a mail delivery truck gets? Or the dashboard of your pickup truck after a day in the sun? Suzanne Bissonnette […]

Soybeans: Trans Fat Ban – Great Timing for High Oleic Varieties – DTN

🕔Jun 19, 2018Monday marks the deadline for the American food industry to rid itself of trans fats, and it couldn’t come at a better time for the high oleic soybean industry. Trans […]

Corn Growth Spurts: Check for Twisted Whorls, Yellow Leaves, Weakened Stems – DTN

🕔Jun 14, 2018Adolescence is the worst. Just ask your corn. Corn plants in the V5 to V7 growth stage may be showing some symptoms of a giant growth spurt — twisted whorls, […]

USDA Reports Trimmed Soy, Corn Stocks – DTN

🕔Jun 13, 2018USDA trimmed both 2017-18 (old-crop) and 2018-19 (new-crop) corn and soybean ending stocks in its release of June Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) this month. […]

Old Weeds Return: Cocklebur, Velvetleaf – Beyond Roundup Ready – DTN

🕔Jun 6, 2018The early bird may get the worm, but the late-emerging weed gets the run of the field.

Rice: FDA Gives Golden Rice a Nod – DTN

🕔Jun 4, 2018The international effort to release a strain of rice known as Golden Rice is nearing completion. On May 24, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) became the third major […]

Corn – Good News: Rootworm Trait Agreement; Corteva Agriscience and Monsanto – DTN

🕔May 18, 2018Corteva Agriscience, the newly formed agriculture division of DowDuPont, will license two insect traits from Monsanto, an aboveground Bt protein stack and Corn Rootworm III, which contains an RNAi rootworm […]

Midwest Fields: Weed Worries Grow – Planting Delayed in Iowa, Michigan – DTN

🕔May 18, 2018In the race to plant the 2018 crop, the month of May has seen a lot of winners. Gerald Gauck of east-central Indiana crossed the finish line on May 12. […]

Soy, Corn Biotech: 10% Yield Jump, Sooner Than You Think – DTN

🕔May 17, 2018For many years, advances in crop technology have focused on specific production traits like herbicide tolerance or insecticide production. Photosynthesis — the driving force behind all plant life — was […]

Plant Breeding: Gene Editing Skips GMO Regulatory Hurdles – DTN

🕔Apr 30, 2018A mushroom that doesn’t brown. White flour with as much fiber as whole-wheat flour. Corn that can fend off northern corn leaf blight. Soybeans that can tolerate salty soils and […]