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Surging fertilizer prices are putting pressure on farmers as they start to look to the next planting season, and altering whether the plant corn or…
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In 2020, a stubborn enemy emerged for corn farmers across the Great Plains: drought. Today, about half of the U.S. is in drought , with large swaths of...
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Farmers are wrapping up the harvest in much of the Corn Belt and finally seeing how much they can get out of derecho-damaged fields. The August...
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Farmers were expected to produce a record corn and soybean harvest this year, but after weeks of poor weather across the region, the USDA has officially...
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According to new quarterly crop data from the USDA , farmers planted about 92 million acres of corn this spring, a 5 million acre decrease over the...
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At the start of 2020, the agricultural economy was poised for a good year. Then came COVID-19 and like almost every other sector, it tanked. But Chad...
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On a hot September day, five Japanese men arrived at Rod Pierce’s central Iowa farm. They represented feed mills and livestock cooperatives, and were...
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Even though the Midwest is tops in field corn production and grows row after row of it, these states don’t stand out when it comes to national...
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Every summer, thousands of Midwestern kids as young as 13 load onto school buses early in the morning to do one of the hottest, dirtiest temporary jobs...
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The corn and soybeans growing in Glenn Brunkow’s fields in the rolling Flint Hills north of Wamego, Kansas, got some much needed rain recently and look...