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Kansas Wheat Fields Get a Visit From Crop Scouts on Annual Tour This Week

2 days ago | dtnpf.com | Jason Jenkins

Kansas Wheat Fields Get a Visit From Crop Scouts on Annual Tour This Week 5/12/2025 | 3:25 PM CDT By Jason Jenkins , DTN Crops Editor MANHATTAN, Kan. (DTN) -- For the second consecutive season, those who travel to Kansas for the Wheat Quality Council's Hard Winter Wheat Tour are arriving with cautious optimism.
Sorghum Yield Contest Opens: Growers Get New Option to Verify Yields

1 week ago | dtnpf.com | Jason Jenkins

Sorghum Yield Contest Opens: Growers Get New Option to Verify Yields 5/1/2025 | 5:25 PM CDT By Jason Jenkins , DTN Crops Editor JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- Sorghum acres are expected to be up this growing season in the United States, and more planted acres mean more opportunities for farmers to participate in the 2025 National Sorghum Yield Contest, which began accepting entries today, May 1.
EPA Plan Outlines Mitigation Requirements for Future Insecticide Use

2 weeks ago | dtnpf.com | Jason Jenkins

EPA Plan Outlines Mitigation Requirements for Future Insecticide Use 4/29/2025 | 4:26 PM CDT By Jason Jenkins , DTN Crops Editor JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency released its final Insecticide Strategy, the next step in the agency's plan to meet its obligations under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Check Germination Percentage and Adjust Seeding Rate Before Planting Soybeans

3 weeks ago | dtnpf.com | Jason Jenkins

Check Germination Percentage and Adjust Seeding Rate Before Planting Soybeans 4/23/2025 | 2:49 PM CDT By Jason Jenkins , DTN Crops Editor JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- Harvest issues plagued some farmers last fall as they combined overly dry soybeans. While that might seem like a problem of the past, not all of those beans are in the rearview mirror.
Disease-Carrying Corn Leafhoppers Could Reach the Midwest Again in 2025

1 month ago | dtnpf.com | Jason Jenkins

Disease-Carrying Corn Leafhoppers Could Reach the Midwest Again in 2025 4/10/2025 | 10:27 AM CDT By Jason Jenkins , DTN Crops Editor JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- The corn leafhopper, a tiny flying insect capable of transmitting the potentially devastating corn stunt disease, survived the winter in South Texas and has been detected moving northward this month.
Follow These Five Steps to Meet Endangered Species Rules for Herbicides

1 month ago | dtnpf.com | Jason Jenkins

Follow These Five Steps to Meet Endangered Species Rules for Herbicides 4/3/2025 | 7:17 AM CDT By Jason Jenkins , DTN Crops Editor JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- EPA's recent efforts to make pesticide registrations comply with the Endangered Species Act (ESA) have left farmers swimming in a veritable sea of agency alphabet soup and additional rules that can seem overwhelming.
Overuse of Bt Corn to Control Rootworms Costs Farmers, Study Finds

1 month ago | dtnpf.com | Jason Jenkins

Overuse of Bt Corn to Control Rootworms Costs Farmers, Study Finds 3/26/2025 | 9:23 AM CDT By Jason Jenkins , DTN Crops Editor JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- During the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775, American Revolutionary militiamen were famously ordered not to fire on British troops until "you see the whites of their eyes." Now, 250 years later, U.S. farmers are similarly being encouraged to hold back on deploying Bt corn traits until truly needed to battle corn rootworm. A retrospective...
Specialty Soybean Company Benson Hill Files Voluntary Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Petitions

1 month ago | dtnpf.com | Jason Jenkins

Specialty Soybean Company Benson Hill Files Voluntary Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Petitions 3/20/2025 | 12:10 PM CDT By Jason Jenkins , DTN Crops Editor JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- Benson Hill, a seed innovation company based in St. Louis, announced March 20 that it filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
National Wheat Yield Contest Expands Digital Yield Category for 2025

2 months ago | dtnpf.com | Jason Jenkins

National Wheat Yield Contest Expands Digital Yield Category for 2025 3/13/2025 | 6:44 AM CDT By Jason Jenkins , DTN Crops Editor JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- Following record-setting participation last year, the National Wheat Foundation (NWF) is now accepting entries for its 10th annual yield contest.
Soybean Brand, Soil Insecticide, Fungicide Program Unveiled at Commodity Classic

2 months ago | dtnpf.com | Jason Jenkins

Soybean Brand, Soil Insecticide, Fungicide Program Unveiled at Commodity Classic 3/11/2025 | 12:54 PM CDT By Jason Jenkins , DTN Crops Editor DENVER (DTN) -- Billed as "America's largest farmer-led, farmer-focused agricultural and educational experience," the Commodity Classic has become the granddaddy of farm shows.