The spot sprayer is a new technology that is rapidly making its way into the market. Several suppliers each have their own approach.

After a year of drought and weather challenges, some cattle farmers are putting in extra cover crops this fall to ease the forage burden. Here’s the top six cover crops Midwest cattle farmers are ...

Labor has been treated as a fixed cost because most labor on Iowa farms is supplied by the operator, family or permanent hired labor. However, when deciding among alternative crops, labor should be ...

Russian farmers, the world's most prolific wheat producers, are pivoting away from the crop to more profitable ones after a year of significant losses due to extreme weather events. According to a ...

What Is a Weed? Not everyone agrees on which plants are weeds, or what to do about them. Not all weeds need to be eradicated.

Cell wall invertases are involved in the hydrolysis of sugar during phloem unloading of vascular plants to control plant development and sink strength but have rarely been studied in root crops like ...

A systematic search was conducted across multiple databases to identify studies that met the predefined inclusion criteria. The Web of Science database was utilized for locating literature in English, ...