Planting soybeans into standing wheat can not only result in higher soybean yields, but offer a significant financial boost to growers compared to planting a traditional double crop of soybeans, ...
The Biden administration, in a bid to expand U.S. wheat acres to offset Ukraine’s export losses, wants to make more farmers eligible for insurance when they grow wheat and soybeans in the same crop ...
DES MOINES, Iowa -- There is only so much farmland in the United States, so when Russia's invasion of Ukraine last spring prompted worries that people would go hungry as wheat remained stuck in ...
The Agriculture Department will allow double cropping to be insured in hundreds of additional counties this winter in an effort to address shortages of wheat and other commodities caused by the war in ...
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Many sorghum farmers have a lot in common. Some 70% grow wheat in their rotations. And for Scott Staggenborg, that means they probably also have livestock. “That also means that there are a lot of ...
Editor’s note: This is part of a series helping farmers to answer consumers’ frequently asked questions, from the big topics like GMOs and animal welfare to specifics on treated seed or tillage. If ...