If you think it’s too early to talk about possibilities surrounding the national yield this year, you aren’t alone. The yield debate is already firing up on social media, stoking anger and an intense ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Martin Larsen (left) and Jess Offord (right) stand in an oat field and discuss the harvest on August 3, 2025 in Byron, Minn.

If you want a quick update on how Midwest corn and soybeans are faring this season, check out the farmdoc 1-minute weekly report, which highlights USDA-NASS data. For the week ending June 22, the ...

Like the start of a big NASCAR race or the beginning of a Championship game, many farmers in southern Minnesota and Iowa began full-scale field work during the week of April 13-19. Farm operators in ...

Farmers and landowners in the Plains states and upper Midwest stand to benefit the most from one of the biggest expansions of commodity program support in decades, according to economists who have ...

The Midwest is bracing for a brutal heat wave this week, and millions of acres of corn crops are about to make it feel even worse. As temperatures soar across the region, a natural process called ...

CHICAGO, Feb 18 (Reuters) - U.S. farmers, though punished by slumping prices after last year's monster corn harvest, are expected to cut back only slightly on their plantings of the grain in 2026 as ...

Massive corn crop. The ’25 corn crop was massive, and there is no other way to describe it, Olson emphasized. At over 17 billion bushels, the ’25 U.S. corn crop was 1.7 billion bushels larger than the ...

Spring fieldwork got off to a good start in some portions of the upper Midwest in mid-late April; however, conditions in other areas were too wet to see the initiation of spring planting. Frequent ...

It’s a big question facing farmers, Garen Paulson said — does farming more acres mean better profits? Based on financial data ...

Martin Larsen (left) and Jess Offord (right) stand in the oat field and discuss the harvest on Aug. 3 in Byron, Minn. (Steven Garcia/Investigate Midwest) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of ...