Crop Production Extension agent in the Cottonwood District (which includes Barton and Ellis counties) for K-St ...

A new disease is plaguing cornfields across the Midwest. Phyllachora maydis is the fungus that causes a corn disease called ...

Offering farmers more seed choices also would help reduce Bt overuse, researchers said. Bt traits targeting insect pests such ...

A research team led by Andrea Eveland, PhD, associate member at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, has uncovered key ...

When that corn crop comes up this spring, you want it to be green and stay green. One potential issue: if you’re using urea ...

If pollen from a hot pepper fertilizes the flower of a sweet pepper, all the hot pepper genes from the father plant go into ...

Add several thousand ears per acre to your yield results and boost ROI by getting your planter ready for the field. Be sure ...

By reducing the cost of breeding, the firm hopes to improve yields and other properties for an array of important crops ...

The findings come from a new analysis of 12 years of field ... where it is rare for farmers to continuously plant the same fields with corn, the study found. "When we crunched the numbers, we ...

The Gazette will host a series of free, virtual talks about the future of agriculture this week, including advances in drone ...

Using insecticides too often may boost weed growth. A new study shows why timing, observation, and cover crops make all the ...