Between hail, strong winds, floods and plant disease, US corn crops were put through some tough times this summer. But somehow, the fields of green blanketing America’s heartland have proved to be ever resilient. Those are the findings heading into …
American farmers will plant more corn than soybeans in 2024 — as they have in most years for over a century. But beyond that, a green diesel boom threatens to dethrone the king of all crops. President Joe Biden’s decarbonization …
Some key U.S. farm states punished by the nation’s worst drought in decades benefited slightly from recent rains, with more rain on the way from the remnants of Hurricane Isaac. The weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map released on Aug. 30 …
Fears are rising that grain crops in the core of the U.S. Corn Belt – the top corn-producing region in the world – will suffer big losses that are already causing farmers to plow up fields in other regions of …
