Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) – It’s that time of year again for farmers to hit the fields, and according to local experts, this ...

But problems at planting time set the stage for an entire season’s worth of trouble. Many, if not most, planting problems result from failing to adjust practices and equipment to fit soil and weather ...

Farmers have increasingly sown a single type of grass in their fields over the past 100 years, and then added chemical fertilizer to increase their harvest. But new research suggests that there are ...

Lee Tesdell stands in a prairie strip on his farm near Slater, Iowa. He grows alfalfa and Kernza, a perennial grain, raises sheep and cash rents to a neighbor who grows corn and soybeans. Over the ...

Walking through his last field of corn to plant, west central Illinois farmer Brent Johnson was nearing the finish line last Monday. Missing the spotty pop-up showers, he finished planting corn that ...

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - Over the past three weeks, farmers have been battling rising river and drainage ditch levels, setting some of them behind their planting schedule. Farmers like Zach Carter of ...

While many people have enjoyed unusually sunny spring days in England, farmers are worried that the lack of rainfall is affecting their crops. With no sprouts emerging from the parched ground and ...

With spring planting beginning around the U.S., it is critical to secure transit, along with the necessary risk‑coverage ...

This Texas rice plant is infested with rice delphacids, a pest that decimated crops last year. An invasive insect called the rice delphacid was a major problem for some farmers in 2025. With low ...