Crop Management

Photo by Derek Penner.

Improving soybean yield in Wisconsin

April 7, 2025

Heat Stress in Canola

Heat Stress in Canola: Paving a Path Forward for Varieties With Improved Tolerance

March 10, 2025

The soybean-breeding program at the University of Missouri Fisher Delta Research, Extension & Education Center is dedicated to developing high-yielding, resilient varieties to support farmers in the U.S. Mid-South. Photo by Kyle Spradley | © 2014 - Curators of the University of Missouri. Published under this license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Developing high-yielding and stress-resilient soybean varieties

February 28, 2025

Photo by Kyle Spradley | © 2014 - Curators of the University of Missouri and published under this license.

Soil testing is key to yield and economic performance in grain corn

January 22, 2025

Stephen Komar (left) and Bill Bamka, Rutgers Cooperative Extension agronomists.

Assessing the feasibility of hemp for fiber production in the northeastern United States

January 20, 2025

There are numerous benefits to more diverse rotations, but breaking out of the two-crop corn–soybean rotation is not easy. Photo by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln CropWatch and courtesy of Javed Iqbal.

Diversifying beyond the corn-soybean rotation is possible, but comes with obstacles

December 31, 2024

Seeder planting cover crops into standing corn. Photo by Jeff Sanders.

Improving cover crop interseeding in northern climates

December 11, 2024

Black-eyed peas. Photo by Jim Diamond.

Black-Eyed Pea in the High Plains

December 4, 2024

Photo of the Farming Smarter staff in 2023 in Lethbridge, AB, Canada.

Applied Crop Production Research Across the Canadian Prairies

September 3, 2024

Wheat harvest in Kansas, the leading wheat producer in the United States. Photo by K-State Research and Extension (https://www.flickr.com/photos/ksrecomm/) and reprinted here under this license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.

Winter Wheat Historic Trends and Yield Gaps in the Wheat State

September 1, 2024