Despite climate challenges, the study suggests increasing crop rotation can still improve overall yields and highlights its potential as a climate adaptation strategy. MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL ...

While the majority of Midwestern farmers rotate corn and soybeans, commodity prices and corn yield advantages compel some to plant corn year after year. Although foundational research on the benefits ...

Ethanol plants springing up across Nebraska are demanding more corn acres to supply them. While increasing corn acreage is necessary to meet the upcoming ethanol demand, producers need to weigh the ...

For the last several decades, the default path for American farmers and ranchers has been increasing specialization of the agricultural activities on their operations. In 1949, American farmers ...

U. of I. natural resources and environmental sciences researcher Lowell Gentry and his colleagues found that an intensive three-year crop-rotation system reduced nitrate pollution runoff by 50% ...

Iowa State University researchers have shown that early soybean planting can help with both greenhouse gas emissions and better yields. (Photo by Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch) As Iowa and the ...

It’s the age-old struggle—farmers scramble to get their work done within the timeframe that Mother Nature affords them. Depending on the local weather patterns, it can be a challenge, and farmers who ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Aims Cover crop species selection for soybean (Glycine max) production under no-tillage (NT) management may affect soil organic C ...

Developing a thriving soybean market in Africa doesn’t just represent a new crop in the rotation for smallholder farmers — it ...

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 ...

Soybeans are Tennessee’s number one crop, and China has been, by far, their number one buyer. But that changed when Trump announced heavy tariffs against them earlier this year — right in the middle ...