Beck's Hybrids announces a territory expansion into two crop-reporting districts in Iowa and three crop-reporting districts in Missouri.

Many times the differences in attaining higher net income for soybean producers can be directly tied to the timing of planting. Recent research showed yields averaged approximately 1/3 bushel per acre less for every day planting was delayed.

Now the clock starts ticking for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. President Barack Obama on Friday signed a new five-year farm bill that will sink billions more dollars into crop insurance, provide desperately sought disaster assistance for ranchers and overhaul the way the government supports dairy farmers.

Raven Industries, Inc. announced a collaboration with Kinze Manufacturing, Inc. to bring a new multi-hybrid planter control system to Kinze's world-leading product offering.

Doug Miller, vice president of Midwest Bio-Tech, helps you understanding soil biological activity and how it impacts plant germination and emergence, so that you can measure and make decisions that can improve your crop stands and yields. [To view any of our webinar replays, you must be logged in with a free user account.]

The last Monsanto-owned patent for the original Roundup Ready trait in soybeans will expire in 2014, and the last applicable third-party patent will expire in early 2015.

About 30% of the major global cereal crops - rice, wheat and corn - may have reached their maximum possible yields in farmers' fields, according to UNL research. These findings raise concerns about efforts to increase food production to meet growing global populations.

If we could predict or know that the planting season during 2014 would be like it was in 2012 (the dry spring), then we would say don't treat your seed at all. But if the season is like this past year, wet, the combinations of seed treatments did a much better job and at the higher rates. There have been lots of questions over the past few days on what fungicides to apply; what rates to use; and are insecticides always necessary. Here we try to parse it all out for you.

FBSciences Inc. announces the key active ingredient in their technology platform has been granted U.S. EPA registration for use as a Plant Growth Regulator (PGR). Complex Polymeric Polyhydroxy Acids (CPPA) is a broad-spectrum PGR for use on field and greenhouse crops.

With the global population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, the world's farmers are going to need to produce a lot more food but without using much more farmland, as the vast majority of the world's arable land is already being used for agriculture.