Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) remains an essential base-layer safety net. The program has delivered more than $2.7 billion in ...

The USDA’s dairy outlook said US milk production is forecast to increase 1.3% in 2026 as higher output per cow and a larger average herd outweigh a late-year decline in cow numbers. With replacement ...

The amount of nitrogen fertilizer needed to maximize the profitability of corn production in the Midwest has been increasing by about 1.2% per year for the past three decades, a trend driven by higher ...

One of the more intriguing age-old farming myths is that on a quiet moonlit night, you could go out to your cornfield and hear the crop literally growing. Turns out that’s not true – not exactly. Corn ...

If you’re topdressing corn acres this spring with dry fertilizer, keep in mind how that product is managed in a high-residue system will determine whether the fertilizer feeds your crop or disappears ...

As a child on the San Xavier Reservation south of Tucson, Rosanna Carlyle helped her family grow melons, corn, squash, chiles, tomatoes, barley, hay and beans. The water came from ditches fed by the ...