CHICAGO — Farmers in the U.S. plan to plant more corn and fewer soybeans this spring than they did last year, hoping to eke out a profit and shield themselves from U.S. President Donald Trump’s ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Farmers in the U.S. plan to plant more corn and fewer soybeans this spring than they did last year, hoping to eke out a profit and shield themselves from U.S. President Donald ...

US farmers are boosting corn planting to a five-year high as the looming trade war makes America’s mostly widely grown crop a relatively safe bet even as demand is at risk of being shaken up by ...

Timely rains and great conditions have farmers racing to put seeds in the ground. USDA’s latest crop progress report shows 24% of the corn crop is now planted. That’s 2% ahead of the five-year average ...

Illinois farmer Brian Corkill uses cover crops on most of his ground. Read about what species he uses ahead of corn and ...

Planting cover crops ahead of corn can be tricky but is not impossible. Learn which species work, which don’t and how much ...

Changing weather and planting practices have led to increased yields. This is an Inside Science story. Few of climate change’s varied dangers are more dire than its potential to make the world’s farms ...

A Farm Region Moving North and East The classic Corn Belt used to be easy to picture: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and parts of ...

Farmers in the south are favouring varieties of corn, sunflower and soybeans, and planning for less wheat as they decide what ...

Colorado farmers plant tens of millions of corn seeds every year, nearly every one of them covered in a thin layer of ...