With tight grain storage and relatively low corn prices, many dairy producers are contemplating the strategic move of ...

Virgil Wells of Boring sells trees and turns them into bowls, back scratchers on other items When bamboo starts flowering, most plants usually die. You may be able to save it by cutting the flower ...

A Purdue University researcher has found a way to get more bang for fewer bucks when it comes to processing cellulosic material to make ethanol. By shredding corn stover instead of chopping, as is ...

Agronomic specialists are encouraging farmers to make their corn harvest plans now, prioritizing which fields to combine ...

Mychal Wilmes shares his memories of a too-wet corn silage harvest in 1968, an early frost a few years later that reduced soybean yields, and a devastating blow when his father died one September.

Crop grain harvest has been delayed by the recent rains and accompanying wet soil conditions. Most growers have been waiting for field conditions to improve prior to renewing their harvest operations.

The hay mow was filled to the rafters with hay and straw bales, but the ear corn supply was gone as September approached. Oats and barley were decent substitutes until the new-crop corn moved from the ...

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