By engineering protection directly into the seed, BASF expects its new transgenic trait to deliver protection and yield benefits for soybean farmers where traditional practices and products have ...

A silent killer stalks your soybean fields. Neither insect nor disease, the tiny, wormlike parasite called soybean cyst nematode (SCN) attacks soybean roots with such ferocity that yields can be ...

By Dusty Sonnenberg, CCA, Field Leader, a project of the Ohio Soybean Council and Soybean Checkoff ...

Common seed sins include falling in love with a variety or hybrid, squelching corn plant populations and not rotating SCN sources of resistance.

Rather than spraying more chemicals, Resurrect Bio is rebuilding crops’ immune systems to help them fight disease naturally.

Tar spot hit some fields hard late in 2024. In fact, on one farm, paid scouts gave the “all clear” in early August. Tar spot came in after that with a vengeance. Since the farm didn’t spray, yield ...

The difference between successful and less successful farming operations ultimately hinges on whether “we’re in this for the ...

Planting winter wheat on ground in Bureau County represented a notable departure from the long-standing corn-soybean rotation that has traditionally defined much of north-central Illinois agriculture.

With more than 80,000 described species that are extremely diverse in terms of ecology and biology, the Nematoda phylum is one of the most common animal phyla. This month's Genome Watch describes ...