Q: What cover crops are recommended for farmers trying the practices for the first time, and why? The use of cover crops on your field can unlock the true potential of your soil. Making your first ...

“[A] lot of hard work and hours went into it, and a few white lies with [my girlfriend] Steph," farmer Will Henderson shared Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — In its fourth forecast for the 2025 crop, COCERAL estimates the total grain crop in the EU-27+UK at 306.8 million tonnes. This would be up from the 279.1 million tonnes harvested ...

Australian farmer Will Henderson proposed to his girlfriend Steph Carter by growing canola crops in the shape of the words “Will you marry me?” The pair flew up in a small plane to view the crops from ...

Held in Copenhagen Royal Library’s “Black Diamond” in August 2025, this year’s Organic Summit focused on a key EU objective – how to achieve 25% organic production and consumption by 2030. Currently ...

Does crop thinning support the production of better fruit and wines? If so, when is it most effective? Photo courtesy of Demetria Estate. When Professor Patricia Skinkis, Ph.D, started as a ...

Blake Gerard’s 25th rice crop is harvested in September 2024. After floods threatened his soybeans and corn, Gerard switched to planting rice. On a late July morning, Blake Gerard zips across his ...

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Capitol News Illinois. A portion of the reporting in Alexander County is supported by funding from the Pulitzer ...

One Illinois man’s decadeslong fight to convert his fields into rice paddies demonstrates how it’s possible to bring diversity to the Corn Belt, but improbable so long as federal farm policy remains ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Two South Dakota farmers have been ordered to pay over $4 million in civil judgment for crop insurance fraud that occurred in 2018 and 2019, according to a news release from ...

If one picture is worth a thousand words, then the video Iowa farmer Dan Striegel shot last week must be worth thousands more. In the video, Striegel is shown harvesting a field of emerald-green corn ...

Due to the strong yield potential in many areas of the upper Midwest, the number of corn and soybean producers that qualify for 2025 crop insurance indemnity payments may be limited. However, there ...