During a tight-margin year like 2026, understanding soil fertility and identifying yield-limiting factors are keys to ...

Field footage of the flagship John Deere 9900i forage harvester, powered by a 24.2L Liebherr V12 engine, efficiently ...

Climate change is accelerating an uneven reshuffling of rural China, pushing smallholders out while only scaled-up farms can weather the uncertainty.

The Renewable Fuel Standard, passed in the mid 2000s, requires that gasoline be blended with ethanol, which in the United States comes almost entirely from corn. That mandate drives up demand and ...

This story is from Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powers stalling climate action. Sign up for Floodlight’s newsletter here. For decades, corn has reigned over American ...

For decades, corn has reigned over American agriculture. It sprawls across 90 million acres — about the size of Montana — and goes into everything from livestock feed and processed foods to the ...

President George W. Bush holds an ear of corn during a 2004 campaign stop at a farmers market in Davenport, Iowa. America’s corn industry has become a political force, courted by presidential hopefuls ...

You want maximum yields this year, so that means more plants in the ground, right? As with most questions related to crop production, that depends. Several factors can influence the yield response of ...

For years, architects and design experts have resisted safety changes at Seattle’s Gas Works Park, but after a teenager died there this summer, his parents want it declared a public nuisance. By Anna ...