Corn is a crop that wants a lot of water and nutrients to grow strong and healthy and to provide a bumper harvest of juicy cobs. These popular and statuesque plants are simple to grow, yet you do need ...

Planting more cover crops this fall is one way corn and soybean growers are addressing their 2026 nutrient needs and looking ...

Hans Schnekloth, a local farmer in Eldridge who has been farming for 17 years, says fertilizer costs have reached the highest ...

If you use the build-maintain-fertilization strategy, consider using your past buildup rather than applying P fertilizer. I ...

If you’re thinking about cutting starter fertilizer this year because of surging costs, Ken Ferrie has three words of advice: Don’t do it. Corn emergence and early growth benefit from starter because ...

In this research plot at the MU Bradford Research Farm, soil has been fertilized with pig manure to study its effect on corn yields and soil health. Corn, one of the most common crops grown in the ...

URBANA, Ill. — Corn growers seeking to increase the amount of nitrogen taken up by their crop can adjust many aspects of fertilizer application, but recent studies from the University of Illinois ...

Crop insurance companies are working out protocols for offering PACE, a pilot program in some counties that would reduce some of the risk in applying nitrogen in split applications, which is a ...

U.S. fertilizer imports are responding to President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs adopted this summer, with buyers pivoting ...

SIOUX CITY, IOWA - The world needs more corn, and U.S. farmers will do everything they can to meet the demand. “That’s just the nature of the American farmer,” said John Scott, who runs a farming ...

SAO PAULO, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Brazil's drought is causing farmers there to delay fertilizer purchases for their upcoming corn-planting season, denting sales for global fertilizer suppliers in the ...