Late-planted soybeans that don’t mature before the fall frost can be salvaged as hay or silage, says Bruce Anderson, University of Nebraska Extension forage specialist. He says soybean hay and silage ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – As the old saying goes, "rain makes grain," but since some farmers haven't seen much moisture this summer, it has them wondering what to do with the soybean crop. "In southern ...

When growers add cover crops, it’s important to select and manage the crop according to the primary objective for the crop. Cover crops usually are planted to benefit the soil and are not harvested.

Two Minnesota farms had two different approaches to get through the 2025 season. In central Minnesota, Raymond DeMars, who is working to eventually take over the family farm near Swanville, said they ...

LAKEFIELD, MN. (KUOO) - If there would ever be a fall when an early frost would be especially devasting to farmers, this would be it. Jim Nesseth of Extended Ag Services in Lakefield, Minnesota says ...

As a result of co-operative investigations carried out with the Research Institute for Animal Physiology, a report has already been published 1 on the summer feeding of green soybeans, in which it was ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Poor spring weather could throw another curve at farmers already behind in the count on crop planting. Alongside the fields ready for corn and soybean seed could be hay crops ...

When it comes to the most beneficial cover crops farmers can use to suppress weeds and increase production values, scientists have found that forage radish is at the top of the list, according to new ...

As we get close to soybean harvest, some herbicides can be applied as harvest aids (desiccant) to desiccate weeds and improve harvest operation. Glyphosate-resistant waterhemp and Palmer amaranth are ...

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.