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Snowfall and rain showers during the past month have improved the soil moisture conditions for Rahn family farm in northern Illinois.

Stabilized enzyme technology is ready for its debut in sidedress fertilizer applications in 2024.

The top west-central Illinois Yield Chasers were honored during a special event hosted by DEKALB and Asgrow. This marked the second year of the corn and soybean yield contests for the 19-county region.

A proposal that has the potential to impact most future pesticide applications is in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency draft stage. EPA’s proposal aims at protecting federal endangered species against potential impacts of herbicide applications.

Winter is a good time to lay the groundwork for a successful growing season. Making a plan to manage pests and disease pressure can help farmers be more prepared when problems arise.

Pests and diseases are a given each growing season, but the degree of the pressure can vary drastically. After harvest, growers should be planning for the best course of action to deal with pests and disease pressure.

Experience, attitude, communication and organizational skills can provide a foundation for farmland owners and farmers when making the move to organic crop production.

With the growing season shifting from June to July, the severe drought began to break apart in some areas of Illinois that then brought on other challenges.

The drought that impacted much of Illinois was a primary concern in the first half of the 2023 growing season. Stephanie Porter and Kelsey Litchfield of the Illinois Soybean Association peeled away the layers of this past crop season in a recent podcast.

Earlier planted soybeans have become the norm as agronomists and academia tout the practice’s benefit in optimizing growth and ultimately yields.

How can every harvest be so similar and yet completely different? The goal is always the same — get everything through the combine and into bins, and yet there are so many circumstances that come into play.

As farmers push to finish the 2023 harvest, David Cosgray, DEKALB technical agronomist in central Indiana, shared an update with AgriNews.

It’s just about guaranteed crops will experience stress at some point in the growing season — and this year was no exception.

The annual yield survey by First Mid Ag Services estimates McLean County corn to average 223.69 bushels per acre. The yield estimate is based on 1,620 samples from 162 locations.

Agronomists covering a broad area of the Corn Belt gave their insights on crop conditions, nitrogen applications and other topics recently at Beck’s Central Illinois Field Show.