It’s Friday in Pro Farmer Crop Tour week, which means the highly anticipated production estimates for the 2023 U.S. corn and soybean crops are now available. These estimates are based on Crop Tour ...

Crops utilize carbon dioxide (CO 2) through photosynthesis to create organic matter, with enhanced photosynthetic rates crucial for meeting global food demands. While crop phenomics has focused on ...

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture, long the world’s gold standard for crop estimates, faces mounting doubts about the reliability of its data from farmers, grain traders and economists following ...

August is typically the month when we get the first producer survey yield estimates from USDA, as well as yield projections from major private firms. This yield data is gathered in different formats ...

A Kansas State University agronomy professor is part of an international team that is calling for a new approach to estimate crop yield potential and gaps – information that is critical in planning ...

The Sept. 12 USDA crop progress report projected record U.S. average yields for both corn and soybeans in 2024. The September yield estimates were increased for corn and held steady for soybeans, as ...

A new AI-based system can generate high-resolution soybean yield maps across Brazil using only limited local data, improving ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Software tools that predict the acreage and yield of the U.S. corn crop at county, regional and multistate scales and optimize in-season fertilizer nitrogen rates at the ...

The USDA’s 17 billion bushel corn estimate jolted grain markets, dropping soybeans and shifting basis, as farmers reassess marketing plans for 2026.

WASHINGTON — The US Department of Agriculture in its September Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates reports lowered its forecast for US 2023 soybean production, yield and ...