OrganicUniversity of Minnesota Extension now sets manure nitrogen for non-irrigated corn at 0.7 lb per bushel after soybeans and 0.9 lb after corn, replacing a flat 1.2 lb, on the strength of more than 230 trials.
CropsWith phosphate fertiliser prices well above last year's, a 16-year University of Nebraska-Lincoln trial finds that applying phosphorus by crop removal paid best, while very high soil levels added cost but not yield.
CropsA USDA Economic Research Service study comparing the US Heartland with Brazil's Mato Grosso finds Brazilian costs per acre far lower, mainly on land and double cropping, while US corn yields are nearly double.
AgribusinessThe US Environmental Protection Agency wants to add 770 million RINs waived through small refinery exemptions back onto refiners' 2026 and 2027 obligations, a move biofuel and soybean groups say protects demand for farm crops.
The October estimate of 188 bushels an acre for Nebraska drove much of the national increase and a 5% fall in corn futures; analysts want NASS to explain why irrigated fields were only 10% of the September sample.
AgribusinessThe National Agricultural Marketing Council says South Africa's agricultural industry trusts, which fund research, transformation and farmer development, grew by R154 million to R2.76 billion in 2024/25, with the Maize Trust adding the most.
CropsLaunching the 2026/27 Multi-Planting Season in Ulundi, KwaZulu-Natal's agriculture MEC warned that El Nino could bring below-normal rain and heat to the province's maize, dry bean and soya areas, and promised early warnings and soil-tested fertiliser for smallholders.
CropsSyngenta has submitted a HiFlex label expansion to the US Environmental Protection Agency that would double the maximum yearly rate of bicyclopyrone in its corn herbicides and allow a pre-emergence product to be followed by Acuron GT after emergence.
LivestockWith maize, de-oiled rice bran and soybean meal up 20-27%, poultry and livestock feed rose from about Tk 68 to as much as Tk 72.50 a kilo; a 50kg bag now costs up to Tk 3,675 and small farms are cutting flocks.
CropsUSDA's October estimates lifted US corn output by about 234 million bushels to just over 16 billion, raised ending stocks to 1.849 billion bushels and put the soybean yield at a record 53.1 bushels an acre.
CropsOf 208 field experiments since 1983, just 21 had the data to judge water productivity properly, and the real variation was far smaller than the claimed 20-40% savings suggest.
CropsThe African Plant Nutrition Institute has finished a round of post-harvest dialogues in five Kenyan counties, where more than 200 farmers running their own crop nutrition experiments reviewed the results with scientists, banks, input firms and officials.
CropsA Maryland farmer found less tar spot where fungicide went on with a high-clearance sprayer than by drone, while rain cost a Minnesota grower $25,000 in edible bean quality in one field.
