Tag: harvest
Wheat yield tops 200 bu./acre
The top wheat yield in the National Wheat Foundation national contest topped the 200 bushels/acre level for the first time in the contest.
What have we learned this year?
A challenging year is about to come to a close. What lessons have we learned?
Bumper crop storage options
This year has produced some near-record yields for many corn growers, and temporary storage may be needed.
Western Corn Belt catching up
Plagued by rain, the western Corn Belt is finally catching up with harvest, and wheat planting.
Farmers making progress, but still fighting moisture
Farmers are finally seeing a break in the weather, but will it last long enough?
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.
Slipping into harvest unprepared
Marlin Clark provides a harvest update, reporting the Ohio corn harvest is now officially 2 percent complete as of Sunday night.
Pa. soybean growers top 100 bushels per acre in contest
Charles Farms, from Lancaster County, was the state's top producer in the 2017 Pennsylvania Soybean Yield Contest, with a yield of 107.17 bushels per acre.
Corn growers beware of Fusarium mold
Fluctuating weather has created conditions ideal for growing Fusarium mold, otherwise known as ‘Ear Rot’, which produces Vomitoxin and Zearalenone toxins.
