Tag: corn
Better weather means harvest is rolling
Farmers needed the kind of weather we're having right now, and hopefully it will continue.
Yields are bountiful, but fields still wet
The yields are coming in good for those who have been able to get in the fields.
So long, fertilizer: This corn acquires its own nitrogen
Researchers have identified varieties of tropical corn from Oaxaca, Mexico, that can acquire a significant amount of the nitrogen they need from the air.
Early harvest means tough grain marketing decisions
Low prices make marketing decisions easy to defer, but the big, early crops mean most farmers will have some corn and soybeans that need to go to town.
Good weather means more poor prices
Favorable growing weather continues, putting downward pressure on prices.
Can biocontrol nematodes combat corn rootworm?
Northern New York farmers and a research team led by Cornell University entomologist Elson Shields are now evaluating their use to combat corn rootworm.
Healthy crops and sick prices
Crops are looking good, for the most part, but the market price definitely is not.
AGCO introduces new Fendt IDEAL combine
AGCO Corporation introduced its new Fendt IDEAL combine June 19. The combine, which has gone through seven years of testing, is the first “clean-sheet” design of an axial combine in the industry in 30 years.
Grain markets weathering the good and bad
The weather continues to be the biggest grain story of 2018 so far, for better or worse.
Long, hot weekend fuels strong grain markets
December corn futures and July Chicago wheat futures have made new contract highs.
