crops

Walking through rows of growing crops helps farmers monitor for harmful insects, leaves that are damaged by disease or other problems that could reduce...

This summer in cornfields in Iowa and Nebraska, about a thousand small point-and-shoot digital cameras will be enclosed in waterproof cases, mounted on…

Mike Lee steers his plane over the Missouri-Arkansas state line, checking out a checkerboard of green and brown fields of rice, cotton, corn and soybeans.…

The snow and freezing temperatures this week in the tri-state region should not have much of an impact on local corn planting.Bob Dodds with Iowa State…

With most of the harvest in, farmers are getting a good sense of how crops were affected by this year’s extremely wet spring and abnormally dry…

This harvest season farmers are having a tougher time deciding what to do with their crops once they’re out of the field.The market price farmers get for…

A wet spring put some farmers in the behind schedule and even forced some to replant their crops. Data on how the harvest is progressing in each of the…

The USDA has issued a report saying over half of Illinois, and over 80 percent of Iowa is abnormally dry but corn and soybeans are not the only crops at…

The rain that areas of Western Illinois saw on Wednesday was enough to keep crops "one step ahead” of drought stress, but not enough to keep crops…

With some Southeast Iowa farmers beginning to need rain, last weekend’s weather brought some rain but maybe not much relief.June, usually the wettest…