Rotating crop families throughout fields means these pathogens experience a break in ... Since these predators don’t just feed on a single crop (or the pests they attract), planting a diversity of ...

2022 is the 30th year of the Pro Farmer Crop Tour. Because USDA no longer collects objective yield samples in August, this will be the industry’s first broad look at field data from across the ...

he asks. Before you terminate a cover crop such as rye, wait until it starts to drop pollen, or the soil becomes dry after soybeans are up and growing. Then hit the field with a single herbicide ...

Researchers in Illinois at Western Illinois University and the USDA-National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR) in Peoria, have identified the potential new crop, field pennycress ...

Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil ...

Crop rotations can limit build-up of weeds that are favored in a single crop environment ... A good crop rotation is dependent on the site, the manager, field history and the rest of the farm ...