Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 10, 2023

growers eyeing winter wheat acres in Fall 2024. E-Corn-Omics: What that could mean for U.S.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

When he pushes a shovel into the soft, well-aggregated soil on his 240-acre farm near Ridgeway, Minnesota, Bergler sees more earthworms than he ever thought imaginable. Never applying more than 100 pounds of nitrogen per acre to his corn acres, Bergler harvests 230 bushel-per-acre corn behind a seven-way grain mix with peas and flax.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 15, 2025

Cameron Terry of Garden Variety Harvests is one farmer who faced difficulty in finding farmland. I think maybe a different path could have been taken that would have yielded much better for our society than the way we deal with private land and exclusion of people now, he adds. Become a member today by clicking here.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Farmers utilize a range of modern toolsfrom task management applications and drones that monitor crop health to sensors and software that help forecast yields. This shift to a data-driven approach not only enhances farm operations but can significantly improve harvest outcomes, turning a good year into an exceptional one.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Created on Madagascar and practiced in about 60 countries today, SRI has been shown to increase grain yields, sometimes twofold. The team in Alexandria is testing 20 more varieties at their 17-acre farm, located on a former cotton plantation that serves as the central research hub for crop and equipment trials.

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ProAg

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

An early corn harvest is well underway in Iowa. And early-season uncertainties about yield have, for the most part, been calmed with early yield results. Iowa farmers have reported average or higher-than-average corn yields despite the drought, according to Iowa State University Extension field agronomists.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

MARCH 14, 2024

It’s been said high-yielding corn needs 25" of moisture per acre per year. In 2023, when Mother Nature didn't cooperate, management strategies to retain moisture coupled with new traits made a difference at harvest.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Cotton Spin: While the abandonment rate remained the same, USDA cut yield per harvested acre across nine states in their September WASDE report. Learn more, plus other adjustments reflected in this week's report.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

DECEMBER 11, 2023

West Texas is the largest cotton production area in the country, but after battling drought and heat, area farmers say the dryland crop is a failure, and the irrigated acres are only yielding half of normal.

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ProAg

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Almost all of Iowa’s corn and soybeans have been harvested as of the latest and final USDA crop update for 2023. Harvest for both crops concluded about a week ahead of the five-year average, primarily due to late-summer heat and drought conditions. But did adverse weather impact yields? Not as much as you’d think.

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ProAg

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Spring wheat harvest is raising some eyebrows. Spring wheat yields in North Dakota have been reported to be anywhere from 35 to 95 bushels per acre with as little as 5 miles between fields. Still, some farmers only harvested 20 – 30 bushels per acre. Read more on spring wheat harvest and quality here.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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ProAg

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The national average corn yield estimate fell from last month to 15.13 Corn acres increased by a whopping 800,000 to 94.9 million, bumping total projected harvest acres to 87.1 Soybean yields declined slightly to 50.1 bushels per acre, while total harvested acres increased to 83.6

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Western FarmPress

AUGUST 21, 2023

A Texas Coastal Bend producer yielded a career-best, harvesting more than 10,000 pounds to the acre. The yields were astronomical." Planters Co-op handled 6.4 million bushels, over a million more than normal.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. In 1920, Blacks owned or operated 14 percent of all farmland in the U.S.;

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ProAg

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

state to complete soybean harvest in 2023. USDA data reveals the state’s soybean growers finished harvesting their crop the week ending November 5. Read more on soybean harvest in Louisiana here. The post Louisiana Completes Soybean Harvest, Battles Exceptional Drought appeared first on ProAg.

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ProAg

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The National Wheat Yield Contest has crowned a winter. Marc Arnusch struck wheat yield gold in Keenseburg, Colorado. Comparing dryland entries based on the percentage by which their measured yield exceeds the five-year average for that county. bushels per acre, or 330.5% The post Colorado Grower Harvests 130.95

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 31, 2025

Farms come in all shapes and sizes, from a thousand-acre field planted in corn to a quarter-acre parcel supporting thirty different types of vegetables. Cover cropping involves planting crops with the intention of improving growing conditions rather than obtaining a harvest. In turn, this led to an increase in yields.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Since 2012, Gail Taylor has built healthy soil, provided hundreds of local families with fresh tomatoes and turnips, and fostered community on less than an acre at Three Part Harmony Farm in northeast Washington, D.C. Gail Taylor and D’Real Graham at Three Part Harmony Farm, their one-acre farm in Washington, D.C.

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ProAg

AUGUST 15, 2023

The 2023 DTN Digital Yield Tour has concluded, finding yield estimates to be relatively average after a whirlwind of a season. National yield estimates were released on August 7, powered by Gro Intelligence’s yield models. bushels per acre, just two bushels less than the Digital Yield Tour.

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ProAg

AUGUST 22, 2024

Like ECO, if a farmer chooses Yield Protection or a yield-based policy, SCO covers yield loss. The underlying plan of insurance also determines whether SCO offers harvest price protection or if it is excluded. SCO can only be issued on acres enrolled in the PLC commodity program. Paulson, N., Schnitkey and C.

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ProAg

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The latest USDA Crop Production Report surprised the industry by forecasting nearly 2 bushels per acre higher corn yields so late in the season. Corn yield is now projected at 174.9 bushels per acre. per acre and cotton is up 16 pounds to 783 pounds per acre. The larger acreage in the U.S. Soybeans are up 0.3

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Agwired

AUGUST 14, 2023

USDA’s first survey-based forecasts for the season slightly lowered yields for corn and soybeans compared to projections last month. The corn yield forecast, at 175.1 bushels per acre, is 2.4 The corn yield forecast, at 175.1 bushels per acre, is 2.4 Harvested area is forecast at 82.7 Based on Aug.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

By bringing businesses such as agronomists, truckers, and custom harvesters—into Bushel’s payment network, farmers and agribusinesses can now avoid the hassle of traditional checks and ACH delays, achieving near real-time payments tailored specifically for agriculture.

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ProAg

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

When Georgia grower Alex Harrel harvested a record-breaking 206.7997 bushels per acre soybean crop, the idea of “what’s possible” in the world of soybean production completely shifted. Enter 100-bushel yield averages. Read more on maximizing soybean yield here.

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ProAg

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Recent data from a yield survey of U.S. According to Allendale, a commodity and brokerage firm, corn yields have declined to 171.5 bushels per acre, with production at 14.8 Meanwhile, soybean yields dropped 1.5 Nebraska showed the sharpest yield declines. Read more on corn and soybean yield predictions here.

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ProAg

OCTOBER 4, 2023

USDA’s latest crop progress report shows nearly a quarter of all corn and soybeans have been harvested in the U.S. In many areas, yields have been better than expected after a litany of heat- and drought-related challenges this growing season. USDA categorizes most of the crops’ harvest as “fair” or “good” condition.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Rows of India-Jammu wheat planted at Rio Del Rey Farm yielded 60 pounds, or enough for 7 pounds of flour. Most modern wheat is a high-yielding semi-dwarf variety that does not produce roots as deep as many heritage types. In good rain years, it can yield a harvest; in dryer years, it can be used for forage.”

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 8, 2024

In part two of this series, I described the yield/input/profit paradox that leads many producers to over apply nitrogen, reducing their profitability in the process. Look at Column 7, the per-bushel cost of additional nitrogen to achieve the next incremental yield bump. bu/ac yield takes almost 8 lb of N per bushel.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

To ensure a successful wheat production and maximize yields, it is crucial to implement best practices in wheat management throughout the growing season. This article will guide you through the key aspects of wheat management, including planting, fertilizing, irrigating, harvesting, and crop rotation.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

His 50-acre farm sits in the bend of the meandering Lamoille River in northern Vermont. By 7:30 the next morning, he and his crew were out in the mud, trying to harvest all they could save. As the climate changes, American farmers face a slew of new threats to their harvests and business models. Soon, the river began to rise.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Sorghum flour has local roots, as the crop sorghum is grown and harvested at farms all across the Great Plains. These farms use regenerative agriculture practices to produce successful yields of sorghum , a crop that can diversify typical crop rotations and provide some of the same soil health benefits of cover crops.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Analysis of yield has shown that each trial has had the most and almost the least yield of all other trials and in at least one year since 2015. We see much more consistency between plots in the same year than we see between plots of the same trial in yield. In 2021 the corn was sold for $6.80/bu

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Agwired

AUGUST 3, 2023

Yield10 intends to harvest the plants and collect seed yield and oil yield data in the weeks ahead with the goal of selecting lead and back-up stacked HT spring E3902 Camelina lines for commercial development and seed scale-up.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

corn yield is forecast at 173.8 bushels per acre, down 1.3 NASS forecasts record high yields in Ohio and South Carolina. Acres planted to corn, at 94.9 Area to be harvested for grain is forecast at 87.1 million acres, up 1% from last month and 10% more than was harvested last year. The average U.S.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Last year we produced an acre of carrots for schools in West Wales, using no chemical fertilisers or pesticides. This was because traditional farming systems allowed the field to be a habitat for the vast range of species which used to coexist in the understory of crops or grasslands, without unduly compromising productivity.

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Lower yields mean less cash flow, contributing to wage stagnation. Underpaid pickers don’t show up, and coffee cherries rot on the ground, wasting the harvest. Some harvests last for six months instead of the standard two, and some are shockingly short. Climate change causes labor problems and hurts farm owners, too.

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