High yields lead to high nutrient removal rates, but next year, nutrient replacement and feeding a new crop comes at a higher cost| AgWeb
Tom Ritter was just weeks away from his 51st harvest, but an everyday task on the farm of cleaning out a grain bin with a vac turned fatal as a shelf of corn caved in on him in the bin.| AgWeb
Have you ever driven past a large tractor pulling a tillage tool and kicking up dust in a farm field and thought to yourself ‘I wonder how much money it’s costing that farmer in the driver’s seat to run that thing?’ If so, you might be a fellow machinery geek, and you also might want to check out The University of Illinois’ Farm Business Management “Machinery Costs Estimate: Tractors” report. The study, published on Sept. 1, found that a high-horsepower, brand-new row crop tract...| AgWeb - Agriculture news and commodity markets
As if 2025 hasn’t thrown farmers enough curveballs for one growing season, corn harvest in the Midwest is setting up to be a tricky affair as well. Iowa State Extension digital agriculture specialist Doug Houser says it’s been “a long time” since he’s witnessed a corn crop set farmers up for such a difficult harvest season. The reason for Houser’s concern heading into fall harvest is the remarkable levels of disease pressure that scouts and farmers have noted in corn fields across...| AgWeb - Agriculture news and commodity markets
David Hula enjoys a good competition. An array of trophies, plaques and certificates of achievement won by growing high corn yields over the past decade-plus attest to that. But Hula is also known in farming circles for his generosity and commitment to sharing tough lessons learned in cornfields, the school of hard knocks, with other growers who might benefit. It’s why the world champion corn grower has unapologetically talked up the benefits of fungicide use this season to any farmer withi...| AgWeb - Agriculture news and commodity markets
In June 2025, Ben McGhee uncovered an amazing treasure untouched for over 2,000 years.| AgWeb
Today’s agriculture news, commodity prices, and ag market insights serving farmers, ranchers, and producers.| AgWeb
The inescapable crop math of sustained crippling commodity prices and high input costs has many growers screaming for immediate relief. However, bailouts are Band-Aids over bullet holes, contend farmers desperate for fundamental change.| AgWeb
Seizing on a paperwork violation and over $500,000 in fines, DOL agents hounded a fourth-generation farm into collapse.| AgWeb