OWATONNA, Minn. – A University of Illinois professor shared the seven wonders of the corn yield world and the six secrets of soybean success with growers at a meeting last week. Innovative Seed and ...

KEARNEY — Scientists who recently completed sequencing the corn genome may have ensured success for crop breeders and farmers racing to double 2000 world corn production by 2030. That means Nebraska ...

No plow, no pivot, just 300-bushel corn. In 2022, Jack Shissler grew bin-busting 302 bushel-per-acre corn on no-till, non-irrigated ground. The eye-popping tally gained Shissler a third-place Illinois ...

For record-setting soybeans, singulation, the precise placement of seeds at planting to ensure optimal spacing and uniformity, is vital.

MADISON — It wasn’t long ago when a Wisconsin farmer stood a better chance of rolling a 300, or perfect, game in bowling than producing a corn crop with a yield of 300 bushels per acre. The odds have ...

URBANA — A Champaign County farming team competing in a national corn yield contest has gotten 313 bushels an acre from a portion of one of their fields. "If any field could do it, this was gonna be ...