The war in the Middle East has created major disruptions to global supplies of nitrogen-based crop nutrients. Now a ...

Local corn basis, measured at the crop reporting district (CRD) level across the eastern Corn Belt, is similar to that of one ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The cliché holds that China plans in decades while America plans in election cycles. Increasingly, though, our thinking seems to stop even ...

For soybean producers, this week’s market posed a familiar question: Should we trust what prices are doing or what the data is saying? Expectations were already running ahead of the facts as the week ...

WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday reapproved the weed killer dicamba for use on genetically modified soybeans and cotton, a pesticide that has raised widespread concern over ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A new generation of soybean nematicides could become an invaluable tool for farmers in order to protect root ...

China accounted for less than 20% of all U.S. exports of soybeans through October of 2025, the latest U.S. Census Bureau data available. For 14 of the last 17 years for the same 10-month time period, ...

When U.S. farmers depend heavily on a single foreign buyer, U.S. trade policy stops being sovereign—and starts being hostage. No country has exploited that vulnerability more than China, and no crop ...

Soybeans showed a glimmer of hope for farmers in 2025, but 2026 is not looking so rosy. U.S. soybean farmers, already squeezed by thin margins and high costs, are now facing another year of stiff ...

The Navy has a new fitness test for active-duty “combat arms personnel,” including members of Naval Special Warfare and Naval Special Operations commands. It is called the Navy Combat Fitness Test ...

A combination of precision fertilizer application, better water management, advances in genetics, seed treatments, and precision planting has provided opportunities for corn and soybeans to flourish.

RYDER, N.D. — Tyler Stafslien is a fourth-generation farmer who’s worked his family’s land in central North Dakota for about 20 years. Roughly half of his 2,500 acres are typically dedicated to ...