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Severe weather delays crop planting again
Iowa Capital Dispatch via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoIowa farmers had an average of about two days available for field work last week due to severe weather that spawned damaging winds, nearly 30 tornadoes...
Crop Watch: Great start in east, but excess water hampers west
Reuters· 23 hours agoWet weather last week in the western Corn Belt slowed field work and disrupted corn emergence in...
We need a farm bill that boosts farmers and the Earth, not Big Ag’s special interests | Opinion
Miami Herald via AOL· 3 hours agoFurthermore, some states want to prohibit the sale of products...desire to prohibit these statutes....
Maize Vs Corn: Is There A Difference?
Daily Meal via Yahoo News· 3 days agoWhether it's called corn or maize, most of the crop (around 40% in the U.S.) is actually consumed by livestock. Only a sliver of the U.S. corn& ...
Iowa fought to keep Corteva, Pioneer. Now company is helping farmers battle climate change
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo Finance· 3 hours ago“It’s a constant battle.” Climate change, combined with a growing global population, creates the...
Tornadoes and other severe weather keeps farmers out of fields – again
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier· 16 hours agoCorn planted reached 88%. Sixty-six percent of the corn crop has emerged. Seventy-three percent of...
Funds sell CBOT corn amid catch-up in US planting pace
Reuters· 1 day agoSpeculators earlier this month were heavily dumping short positions in Chicago corn as wet weather...
Severe weather keeps farmers out of fields — again
The Globe Gazette· 18 hours agoCorn planted reached 88%. Sixty-six percent of the corn crop has emerged. Seventy-three percent of Iowa’s expected soybean crop ...
Zimbabwe Says 60% of Its Population Needs Food Aid Until March
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance· 2 days ago(Bloomberg) -- Zimbabwe said 9 million people — more than half of its population — will need food...
Wet week helps crops
Tribune via AOL· 10 hours agoMay 28—OLYMPIA — The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agriculture Statistics Service's weekly report for Washington indicates that the week ending May 26 was wetter than average which ...
