USDA's 8 September Crop Progress report shows corn maturity ahead of the five-year average in ten states and by double digits in five, with 81% of Tennessee's crop mature, 72% of Kentucky's and 53% of Kansas's, as heat and dry weather hurry the crop along.
Early dig began on 9-10 September with Michigan Sugar's four factories slicing from 11 September; the cooperative planted about 143,000 acres, 4,000 more than last year, and forecasts 29-31 tons an acre, but Sanilac County grower Matt Frostic says Cercospora leaf spot is exhausting fungicide options
AgribusinessInvoking Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, the 8 September executive order bars certain Canadian dairy products, with further orders on motorcycles and alcohol taking effect on 29 September, in reply to Canada's new tariffs on about C$28bn of US goods.
WorkSmart Autosteer, the first product of Kubota's new WorkSmart technology line, is a dealer-installed guidance system for smaller equipment, on sale now in the United States with no dates yet for Europe, Australia or New Zealand.
Technology that determines a chick's sex inside the egg has gone from zero to 40% of the EU layer market in five years, driven by bans on male chick culling, while in the United States only premium brands have adopted it and retailers refuse to pay extra.
The commercial agreement will expand Bayer's newgold winter canola in the US Southern Great Plains as a rotation crop with wheat, supplying lower-carbon oilseed for renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, demand the partners put at roughly 40 billion gallons by 2040, with hybrids carrying
A University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension trial at the 16-acre Kegonsa solar site found forage plots under panels produced 70 to 88.5 per cent of full-sun dry matter across the season, but out-yielded open plots by the third cutting, with alfalfa under single-axis trackers 25 per cent ahead.
CropsWith more than 89 per cent of commercial soybeans carrying PI88788 resistance that many SCN populations now overcome, the University of Missouri's Northern Missouri Soybean Breeding Program has identified the gene and allele combinations, built on rhg1-a, that resist the state's nematode populations
CropsWith drought stretching across the Delta, Farm Progress sets out the three states' smoke-management rules for post-harvest crop burning: voluntary guidelines and 24-hour notice in Arkansas, certified and non-certified burn managers with $250 to $500 penalties in Louisiana, and permits with a notaris
CropsModerate to severe drought covers much of Minnesota as harvest nears, with NASS rating 58 per cent of topsoil short or very short, 62 per cent of corn and 57 per cent of soybeans good or excellent, and pasture 49 per cent poor or very poor, while the state works with USDA on disaster declarations.
LivestockNebraska Extension agricultural economist Shannon Sand works through the arithmetic of overgrazing: a pasture whose production falls 20 per cent drops from 128.2 to 102.6 animal-unit months, a shortfall that has to be bought as hay, and regaining the original carrying capacity can take three to five
USDA's 23rd Crop Progress report of the season records the first corn harvest of 2026, 5% across seven states, while the share of the crop rated good to excellent fell to 56%, the lowest of the year and 12 points below last year.
Norwegian virtual-fencing company NoFence has released its third-generation cattle collar, the N3, with satellite backup and a software platform that writes grazing records, moves herds on a schedule and flags cows coming into heat.
